Budgets & Projections
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House GOP Budget a Solid First Step, But More Work is Needed
Read moreFor Immediate Release The House Budget Committee released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget resolution Tuesday that calls for balancing the budget over...
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CBO’s Analysis of the President’s FY 2018 Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget, using its own assumptions to evaluate the...
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How Might CBO Estimate the President's Budget?
Read moreWhen the President released his budget in May, the Administration estimated it would reach balance after a decade and reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio...
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How Committees Could Meet Reconciliation Instructions for Mandatory Savings
Read more(Update 7/20/2017): The House Budget Committe has since released its FY 2018 budget resolution and reconciliation instructions. You can read an...
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Did the Trade Deficit Cause $20 Trillion in Debt?
Read moreIn a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, President Trump suggested that the national debt is caused by years of trade deficits. However...
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Analysis of CBO’s Updated Budget and Economic Outlook (June 2017)
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released updated budget and economic projections today, continuing to show an unsustainable picture of debt over...
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Highlights from CBO's June Baseline Update
Read moreToday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released updated ten-year budgetary baseline and economic projections. Like its previous projection in...
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Build a Responsible Federal Budget With Our New Debt Fixer Tool
Read moreNow that President Trump has unveiled his full budget proposal and Congress is working on its own budget resolution, CRFB is launching a new tool that...
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Price Confirms Double-Counting in President's Budget
Read moreOne source of uncertainty in the President's budget is how much savings it contains from reducing Medicaid spending. In testimony last week to the...
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Marc Goldwein: Three Smart Reforms in Trump's Budget
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Commitee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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Maya MacGuineas and Robert L. Bixby: President Trump’s budget is ‘incoherent’
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and Robert L. Bixby, executive...
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How Much Overlap is There Between the Trump and Obama Budgets?
Read moreWe noted last year that President Obama's final budget might not be as much of a dead letter as many observers assumed. Though there was likely to be...