Budgets & Projections

This blog is part of the “ Fiscal FactCheck ” series designed to examine the accuracy of budget-related statements made during the 2016 presidential...

Quite a few candidates in last night’s debate mentioned the size of the national debt, but not all were able to do so successfully, with some saying...

Alan Auerbach and William Gale at the Tax Policy Center recently released their frequently-updated budget projections. Their new outlook is familiar...

CBO's recent budget projections show debt growing in the latter half of the decade as deficits widen. Entitlement spending will continue to grow as a...

CBO’s latest budget baseline projects ten-year deficit numbers to be slightly smaller than previously estimated, despite the passage of legislation...

Our recent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) August baseline focused on CBO's official current law baseline projections, which show...

CRFB has released its analysis of CBO's latest ten-year budget projections, detailing the important facts from the report and how it has changed from...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its August baseline, updating budget projections from March and economic projections from January...

CBO released its estimate of the economic effects of the President's budget late last week, doing dynamic scoring for the President's budget. Like...

Lawmakers have dealt with several Fiscal Speed Bumps – budgetary deadlines – throughout the year, but quite a few will appear over the next few months...