Budgets & Projections

Late last night the House passed a supplemental appropriations bill ostensibly to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, lawmakers...

CRFB just released its analysis of the long term outlook. The analysis noted that while the debt picture has improved somewhat under CBO's extended...

CBO’s Long Term Budget Outlook, released today (see our press release here), paints a more alarming picture of the U.S. debt path than had been...

This afternoon, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas testified before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, offering several...

This morning, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf released CBO's long-term outlook at the third public meeting of The National Commission on Fiscal...

After much anticipation, the CBO has released its Long Term Budget Outlook, which gives the first glimpse at the long-term effects of the recently...

Extenders Put on Hold – Legislation to extend some tax breaks and expanded unemployment insurance has been put on the back burner because senators...

Even in best years the congressional appropriations process usually results in a proverbial train wreck. And this year is shaping up to be such a bad...

The choice of who will replace Peter Orszag at OMB is a critical one. We were thrilled when President Obama chose Orszag, Summers, and Geithner, to be...