Budgets & Projections
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Maya MacGuineas: Welcome to the woeful world of free-lunch economics
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Balancing the Budget Would Take $7 Trillion to $10 Trillion in Savings
Read moreThe worsening budget outlook means that meeting certain fiscal goals is now much more difficult than it was previously. We estimate that balancing the...
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Debt Could Reach Record Levels in a Decade
Read moreThe Congessional Budget Office's (CBO) latest budget projections released this week show how much worse recent legislation has made the fiscal outlook...
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Analysis of CBO’s April 2018 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its ten-year budget and economic outlook today, showing that recent legislation has made an already...
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New From CBO: Trillion-Dollar Deficits Will Return In Two Years
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its latest baseline projections – the first since last June and the first to incorporate the...
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Baseline 101: Anticipating CBO's Updated Budget Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will release its 2018 Budget and Economic Outlook on April 9, which is likely to project sustained trillion...
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Chartbook: America's Deteriorating Budget Outlook
Read moreAn updated version of this chartbook is available here Below is a chartbook on America's deteriorating budget outlook.
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Omnibus Spends $110 Billion Above New Budget Caps
Read moreLast week's omnibus spending bill enacted a 13 percent increase in base appropriations, spending virtually all of the additional $143 billion allowed...
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Spending Deal Sets Dangerous Precedent
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congressional leaders unveiled late Wednesday a bipartisan spending agreement to fund the government through the remainder of...
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Where Does the Higher Spending in the Omnibus Go?
Read morePolicymakers recently announced an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the government for the remaining six months of Fiscal Year 2018. The bill funds...
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Rising Rates Could Further Balloon Interest Spending
Read moreNote (5/15/2018): This blog was published before CBO's April 2018 baseline, which provides official estimates of the amount of interest that will be...
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Maya MacGuineas: America's Debt Crisis is Coming – Interest Payments Will Hit a Trillion Dollars a Year
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...