Budgets & Projections
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CBO's Latest Estimate of the Partial ACA Repeal
Read moreKicking off the new year in style, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest estimate of the reconciliation bill passed by the Senate...
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2015’s Fiscal Follies and Reasons for Hope
Read moreIt’s the end of the year and like so many organizations, CRFB wanted to share with you our top 10 list: a look back at Congress’s 10 top fiscal...
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Policymakers Dig Hole $1.2 Trillion Deeper in 2015
Read moreWith debt already around its highest level as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) other than around World War II and estimated to grow with no end...
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Expectations Vs Reality For the FY 2016 Budget
Read moreWith the first session of the the 114th Congress rapidly drawing to a close and the big budget issues being settled, we will take a look at how the...
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Omnibus Bill Falls Back on the Usual Budget Gimmicks
Read moreThe negotiations that concluded this week produced two major pieces of legislation. The most consequential for the budget is the $680 billion package...
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How a Fed Rate Increase Could Affect the Budget
Read moreToday, the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's interest rate setting and deliberative body that meets eight times a year, could announce that...
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Peuquet Highlights Importance of Budget Debates
Read moreAs we face an end-of-the-year legislative crunch that promises to be fiscally irresponsible, former Research Director of the Committee for a...
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Five Years Since Simpson-Bowles: How Much of It Have We Enacted?
Read moreToday marks the fifth anniversary of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform's (Fiscal Commission's) vote on the Simpson-Bowles...
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Robert L. Bixby and Maya MacGuineas: Campaigns must focus on debt before all else
Read moreRobert L. Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and...