Budgets & Projections
Latest
-
CBO Releases January 2025 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its January 2025 Budget and Economic Outlook today, projecting that the national debt remains on an...
-
CBO: Record Debt in 4 Years, Interest Matching Record This Year
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest projections for the budget and economic outlook today, projecting that the national debt...
-
Maya MacGuineas on Bloomberg TV's "Wall Street Week"
Read moreCommittee president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg TV's "Wall Street Week" to discuss the fiscal situation of the incoming...
-
Treasury Confirms Calendar Year 2024 Deficit Tops $2.0 Trillion
Read moreThe Treasury Department released the Monthly Treasury Statement for December, showing the United States borrowed $2.0 trillion in calendar year 2024...
-
CBO Estimates $710 Billion Deficit for First Three Months of Fiscal Year 2025
Read moreThe United States borrowed $710 billion in the first three months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, including $85 billion in the month of December, according...
-
Deficit Totaled $2.0 Trillion in Calendar Year 2024
Read moreThe federal budget deficit totaled $2.0 trillion for calendar year 2024, an increase of roughly $200 billion from the Fiscal Year 2024 deficit and...
-
Budget Offsets Bank
Read moreWith the national debt on course to exceed its record as a share of the economy in the next two years, interest payments on the debt surging, and
-
CBO’s “Other Mandatory” Savings Options
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its Options for Reducing the Deficit, outlining 76 policy options to reduce the deficit. Most...
-
Chris Towner: It’s Time To Get Serious About The Federal Budget Deficit
Read moreChris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for the Carolina Journal...
-
Top 13 Fiscal Charts of 2024
Read moreIt was a busy year for fiscal policy in 2024, with a big focus on the presidential election. In addition to releasing a few major papers, we also...
-
John Kasich: It’s finally time to tackle the national debt
Read moreJohn Kasich is a former governor of Ohio, former congressman representing the state, and director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
-
Lawmakers Add $380 Billion to the Debt in the Final Hours of 2024
Read moreWith the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act and the American Relief Act, Congress and the President approved $1 trillion in new ten-year debt...