Budgets & Projections

Today is September 30, the last day of the government's fiscal year. If Congress does not agree on a continuing resolution today to authorize spending...

At the House Budget Committee hearing on CBO's Long-Term Outlook, Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI), who last week sent a letter calling for action on Social...

In light of CBO's updated long-term projections, and our subsequent CRFB Realistic Long-Term Projections, CRFB has taken a fresh look at the minimum...

The release of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Long-Term Budget Outlook is one of the big events in the budget world, and we'd like to think...

Continuing with CRFB's analysis of CBO's latest long-term budget projections, we now turn our attention to one of the central themes throughout CBO's...

As part of our blog series on CBO's recent long-term budget and economic projections, we now turn our focus to the fastest growing part of the budget...

Although some argue that policymakers can wait to solve our long-term entitlement problems, CBO's recent Long-Term Budget Outlook suggests otherwise...

Update: The second graph has been corrected to show the correct year for each line. It is no secret that the growth of federal health care spending is...

Politicians and economists have long talked about the negative effects of an accumulating national debt, but cannot always quantify their position...

Update: CBO has now released its official Alternative Fiscal Scenario estimates (tab 6 of the Excel). They find that debt reaches 165 percent of GDP...

It's here — CBO has released its updated long-term baseline. Since December, many commentators have attempted to see where we stand since the fiscal...