Budget Projections

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...

Note: This analysis has been updated to reflect President Biden’s announced cancellation plan. You can read the original version here. President Biden...

Recently, we estimated the original Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) would reduce deficits by roughly $1.5 trillion over two decades, or nearly $2...

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) would reduce budget deficits by over $300 billion in its first nine years, but much of the savings would take time...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its July 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook, its first extended baseline since March 2021. CBO's long...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a cost estimate for H.R. 4346, a “chips-plus” economic competitiveness bill. CBO estimates the...

According to the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) latest baseline, the federal government will spend $400 billion on interest payments on the...

Note: This analysis has been updated from the original version to reflect new estimates of how long it would take for the amount of student debt owed...

The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest baseline projects that federal debt held by the public will rise to a record 110 percent of Gross...

According to the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) latest baseline, budget deficits will rise dramatically over the next decade, from $1.0 trillion...

Interest payments on the national debt are projected to be the fastest-growing part of the federal budget. Under the Congressional Budget Office's...