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CRFB Releases Analysis of CBO's Long Term Outlook
CRFB just released its analysis of the long term outlook. The analysis noted that while the debt picture has improved somewhat under CBO's extended...
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Erskine Bowles Joins the Announcement Effect Club
Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, joined the Announcement Effect Club yesterday during the...
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The House's Budget Enforcement Resolution
As expected, the House came out today with its " budget enforcement resolution." What's the difference between a budget enforcement resolution and a...
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CBO Releases Sobering New Long Term Outlook
CBO’s Long Term Budget Outlook, released today (see our press release here), paints a more alarming picture of the U.S. debt path than had been...
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CRFB President Testifies Before President's Fiscal Commission
This afternoon, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas testified before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, offering several...
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CRFB Reacts to CBO's Long Term Outlook
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Long Term Budget Outlook, which paints an alarming and dismal picture of the country’s...
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Fiscal Commission Holds Public Forum
This morning, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf released CBO's long-term outlook at the third public meeting of The National Commission on Fiscal...
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Spending and Revenues in the Long Term Outlook
After much anticipation, the CBO has released its Long Term Budget Outlook, which gives the first glimpse at the long-term effects of the recently...
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Brown: Don’t Take Financial Overhaul Offsets to the Bank
Major legislation reforming the financial regulatory process hit a snag today as Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) said he would not support the bill because...
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Business as Usual--Backdoor Spending Included in Supplemental
Here they go again. As they have for years, lawmakers are attempting to tuck billions of dollars for unrelated programs into the war supplemental...