Budgets & Projections
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Analysis of the President's FY 2019 Budget
Read moreThe Trump Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget proposal today. The budget proposes a number of tax and spending changes that it...
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President's Budget Doesn't Meet the Fiscal Realities
Read moreFor Immediate Release President Trump released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget on Monday. The following is a statement from Maya MacGuineas...
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Bipartisan Budget Act Means the Return of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Read moreLawmakers have passed a budget deal that will increase deficits by $320 billion over a decade or almost $420 billion with interest and sets the stage...
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Budget Deal Could Lead to $2 Trillion Deficits
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congress passed a massive budget agreement early Friday that adds almost $420 billion with interest to the national debt over...
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What We’d Like to See in President Trump’s FY 2019 Budget
Read moreThe Trump Administration is slated to release its budget outlining the President’s priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 and the next decade on Monday...
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Budget Deal Could Ultimately Add $2 Trillion in Debt
Read moreThe budget deal lawmakers have agreed to would increase discretionary spending above and beyond repeal of the sequester and the caps set in law under...
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CBO Finds Budget Deal Will Cost $320 Billion
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office has released a series of estimates for the budget deal announced yesterday. The deal would add $320 billion to...
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Budget Deal Will Bring Back Trillion-Dollar Deficits and Could Ultimately Add More Than $1.5 Trillion to the Debt
Read moreFor Immediate Release Senate leaders have agreed to a massive budget deal raising the defense and nondefense spending caps for two years, increasing...
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Budget Deal Would Assure Permanent Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Read moreNote (2/9/2018): We have published an update to this blog reflecting passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. It is posted here . Lawmakers...
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MacGuineas Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
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Debt-O is Back for the State of the Union Address!
Read morePresident Donald Trump will give his first State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. ET. CRFB will be live tweeting the speech, providing analysis...
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President Trump Fails to Address Growing National Debt in State of the Union Speech
Read moreFor Immediate Release President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday. Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee...