Budgets & Projections

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal posted an article discussing the FDIC’s soon-to-be urgent need to draw money from its $500 billion Treasury line of...

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated Budget and Economic Outlook and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...

CRFB released this report on OMB's Mid-Session Review. (We will soon release a more detailed analysis.) CBO provides a comparison chart between OMB...

Late Friday the White House conceded that ten-year deficits would total around $9 trillion, according to their estimates. This is $2 trillion greater...

August 20 - Next Tuesday the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will release their Mid-Session Review of the budget. They plan to announce that the...

August 18 - According to Bloomberg, last month's budget deficit hit a record $180.7 billion, higher than any month in U.S. history. Spending in July...

August 11 - Today, CRFB released a report highlighting its take on CBO's Long-Term Projections for Social Security. Last year, the CBO projected...

August 8 - Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Long-Term Projections for Social Security. According to the CBO: "Currently...

August 6 - Today, the CBO released the second of two lengthy reports outlining the budgetary options of various policies likely to be undertaken by...

July 31 - Yesterday, the House passed its final FY 2010 appropriations bill, but, in the process, disregarded requests from the Pentagon and Obama...