Budget Projections
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Interactive Tool: Reforming the Candidates' Fiscal Plans
Read moreOur recent in-depth analysis Promises and Price Tags found that the national debt would continue to rise under a Hillary Clinton or a Donald Trump...
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Social Security, Health, and Interest Spending Account for Four-Fifths of Spending Growth
Read moreThe deficit will rise dramatically over the next decade, from about $590 billion at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 to over $1.2 trillion at the end...
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Our Quick Take on CBO's August Projections
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released updated baseline projections showing deficits and debt rising in the coming years. CRFB will...
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Report: Analysis of CBO's August 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreBudget deficits are on the rise, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) budget and economic projections released today. CBO projects...
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The Long-Term Outlook Could Be Even Worse Than CBO Says
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows debt nearly doubling as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next 30...
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The Very, Very Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows growing federal debt over the next 30 years, but we extended those projections to 75...
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Marc Goldwein: Both Clinton and Trump Would Grow National Debt
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a guest...
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Social Security May Be In Worse Shape Than Trustees Suggest
Read moreThe Social Security Trustees made their projections last week showing the program's sizeable shortfall and its trust fund's insolvency date, but there...
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PBS NewsHour Piece on CRFB's Latest Analysis
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a column that appeared in PBS NewsHour's Making Sen$e. It is...
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Telling the Whole Story on Interest and Long-Term Debt
Read moreIn a recent blog, New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman criticized Donald Trump's recent suggestion that he'll "negotiate forgiveness on...
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Interest Spending Looms Large in the Next Decade
Read moreIn a recent blog post on The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire, director of Brookings Institution's Hutchins Center David Wessel outlines a major...
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CBO’s Analysis of the President’s FY 2017 Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the President’s FY 2017 budget, using its own economic and technical assumptions to...