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IMF: US is the Only Advanced Economy With Debt Rising
Read moreThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a new report yesterday projecting that debt as a share of GDP will decline over the next five years for... -
What If Interest Rates Are 1 Point Higher? $1.9 Trillion in Extra Costs
Read moreInterest costs are the fastest growing part of the budget, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projecting interest payments will more than... -
More Than Half of Next Year's Deficit is Congress's Fault
Read moreThe budget deficit will approach the trillion-dollar mark next year, according to recent projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Well... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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. -
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... -
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...