Budgets & Projections
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Looking at the Long Term in 2015
Read moreCBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook, released yesterday, is a detailed 130-page document, filled with budget projections for the next 25 years, along with...
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CBO Shows an Unsustainable Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its 2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook, showing a clearly unsustainable long-term path for debt. The...
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Avoiding Budget Gimmicks Chartbook: 2015
Read moreFor additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our Better Budget Process Initiative home page. A previous...
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Maya MacGuineas: Another Look at That IMF Paper on Debt–and What It Means for the U.S.
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Richmond Fed Releases Bailout Barometer
Read moreThe Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has updated their “ Bailout Barometer,” which measures the total financial sector liabilities that have a...
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Congressional Double-Take on Revenue
Read moreThe Congressional budget resolution proposes to bring the budget into balance by reducing spending $5.3 trillion over the next decade while keeping...
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Four Takeaways from the Solutions Initiative Plans
Read moreThe Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative III produced five different fiscal plans that would improve the current long-term budget outlook. We...
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Discretionary Spending and the Sequester in the Final Budget Conference
Read moreThe budget resolution conference agreement has passed both the House and Senate. While we previously wrote about the conference's deficit reduction...
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Budget Process in the FY 2016 Congressional Budget Resolution
Read moreDuring the consideration of the FY 2016 budget, we continually wrote about the budget process provisions in the major budget resolutions as well as...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Read moreNote: We have updated this paper, please see the latest Appropriations 101 . What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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The Basics of the Budget Conference Agreement
Read moreYesterday, we discussed The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Budget Conference, where we showed how the budget conference agreement was a mixed bag...