Budget Projections
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Budget Deal Takes 20 Years to Offset Its Cost
Read moreThe recently-enacted budget deal does not offset its ten-year cost like advocates have claimed, but what about the longer-term impact? The deal...
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Budget Deal Truly Offsets Only Half Its Cost
Read moreLawmakers are currently considering a budget deal that would increase appropriated spending, suspend the debt limit until March 2017, reallocate...
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FY 2015 Deficit Falls to $439 Billion, but Debt Continues to Rise
Read moreThis paper was updated on October 15, 2015 to reflect the final end of year deficit as announced by the Treasury Department. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2015...
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Happy Fiscal New Year! 15 Numbers from FY 2015
Read moreToday marks the end of Fiscal Year 2015. As we look forward to the important work lawmakers face this coming year, let us also take a brief look back...
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Auerbach-Gale Projections Also Show Unsustainable Debt Picture
Read moreAlan Auerbach and William Gale at the Tax Policy Center recently released their frequently-updated budget projections. Their new outlook is familiar...
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Interest Rates Continue to Fall in CBO's Forecast
Read moreCBO’s latest budget baseline projects ten-year deficit numbers to be slightly smaller than previously estimated, despite the passage of legislation...
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Three Scenarios for Projecting Debt
Read moreOur recent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) August baseline focused on CBO's official current law baseline projections, which show...
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CRFB Breaks Down the Newest CBO Budget Projections
Read moreCRFB has released its analysis of CBO's latest ten-year budget projections, detailing the important facts from the report and how it has changed from...
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CBO Still Shows Unsustainable Debt in its August Baseline
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its August baseline, updating budget projections from March and economic projections from January...
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Report: Analysis of CBO’s Updated Budget and Economic Outlook August 2015
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its updated budget and economic projections for the coming decade, showing that while short-term...