Budgets & Projections
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Interest Spending Is On Course to Quadruple
Read moreThe fastest growing part of the federal budget is interest on the debt – payments made to service previous borrowing. While interest had already been...
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WATCH: MacGuineas Testifies Before House Budget Committee
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified before the House Budget Committee on CBO Oversight on...
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Updating the U.S. Budget Outlook
Read moreNote (4/30/2018): This paper was published before CBO's April 2018 baseline, which provides official estimates of the fiscal situation. For the...
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Debt Could Be 20 Percent of GDP Higher than President's Budget Claims
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) typically publishes its own estimate of the President's budget about a month after the budget's initial release...
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An Overview of the President's FY 2019 Budget
Read moreMoments ago, President Trump released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget proposals, outlining his tax and spending proposals for the next decade. We...
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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...