Budgets & Projections
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Wrapping up the 2016 Fiscal Year
Read moreThe Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 budget deficit totaled $587 billion, according to the final data from the Treasury Department. Although this is nearly 60...
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Interactive Tool: Reforming the Candidates' Fiscal Plans
Read moreOur recent in-depth analysis Promises and Price Tags found that the national debt would continue to rise under a Hillary Clinton or a Donald Trump...
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Looking at the Long Term Under the Candidates' Plans
Read moreWe’ve shown before that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump would reverse the unsustainable growth of the national debt over the next decade, and...
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Maya MacGuineas: Neither Candidate Has Any Real Plan for Our National Debt
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...
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Paul A. Volcker & Peter G. Peterson: Ignoring the Debt Problem
Read morePeter G. Peterson is the founder and chairman of the Pete G. Peterson Foundation and a board member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
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Social Security, Health, and Interest Spending Account for Four-Fifths of Spending Growth
Read moreThe deficit will rise dramatically over the next decade, from about $590 billion at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 to over $1.2 trillion at the end...
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Will Obamacare Be One of the Biggest Line Items in the Budget?
Read moreDuring the second presidential debate on October 9, Donald Trump said in response to a question about the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), "It’s...
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What Would Clinton and Trump Need to Do to Address the Debt Along with their Policy Agendas?
Read moreWe recently estimated that Clinton's policies would likely add $200 billion to the debt over the next decade, while Trump’s policies would add $5.3...
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Maya MacGuineas: Debate Questions But No Real Answers on National Debt, Social Security
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, analyzed the vice...
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The Fiscal State of Play
Read moreSome commentators have made the argument that our nation’s fiscal challenges are not particularly large. So what is the fiscal state of play...
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Clinton & Trump: Where Will Our Debt Be in 10 Years?
Read moreOur recent report Promises and Price Tags: A Preliminary Update estimated that both major party presidential candidates' proposals would add to the...
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As We Enter the New Fiscal Year, A Look Back at FY 2016
Read moreWhile most of the country will not be celebrating the new year for another three months, today marks the turnover of the fiscal year (FY) with FY 2016...