Papers

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget using its own assumptions to evaluate the...

On May 24, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the Joint Select Committee on Budget and...

The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world, and a large share of that spending comes from the federal government...

Below is a Chartbook that corresponds to the paper " Playing By the (Budget) Rules: Understanding and Preventing Budget Gimmicks"

Below is a chartbook on America's deteriorating budget outlook. Update (5/15/18): We clarified the footnote on slide 9 to more clearly reference CBO's...

The statutory deadline for a budget is April 15 and no budget is in sight. Instead, members of the House of Representatives are voting on a balanced...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its ten-year budget and economic outlook today, showing that recent legislation has made an already...

An updated version of this chartbook is available here Below is a chartbook on America's deteriorating budget outlook.

Policymakers in Washington have turned their attention to infrastructure, with members of both parties putting forward their own competing proposals...

On March 14, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Ways and Means Tax Policy...

On March 14, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Budget Committee on "CBO Oversight...

Note (4/30/2018): This paper was published before CBO's April 2018 baseline, which provides official estimates of the fiscal situation. For the...