Budgets & Projections

A negotiated deal to fund the government through the rest of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 has passed the House of Representatives, with final passage...

Predicting what the economy will look like over the next 30 years is no easy task, but the assumptions in the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Long...

The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) 2017 Long-Term Budget Outlook shows today's high debt will nearly double as a share of Gross Domestic Product...

Dr. Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...

Last week, we showed that today's post-war era record-high debt is slated to double as a share of the economy over the next three decades, while four...

Today the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their latest Long-Term Budget Outlook, extending the agency's budget projections for the next 30...

Although President’s Trump “ skinny budget” pays for most of its defense spending increases with cuts elsewhere, one-fifth of the spending increases...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and Robert L. Bixby, executive...

House Republican leaders have introduced an ACA replacement bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...