Budgets & Projections
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Senate Budget Committee Hearing on CBO Long-Term Fiscal Outlook
Read moreLast week, CBO Director Keith Hall testified before the Senate Budget Committee on the release of CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook. Senators questioned...
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ACA Repeal Could Add $5 Trillion to the Debt Within 20 Years
Read moreMuch of the focus on the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) score for repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) naturally has focused on the ten-year...
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Shoring Up Trust Funds Greatly Improves Debt
Read moreThe main focus of CBO's long-term budget outlook is rightly on the unified budget numbers regarding spending, revenue, deficits, and debt. But it is...
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New Affordable Care Act Repeal Estimate Still Shows Deficit Increase
Read moreFor the first time in nearly three years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new estimate of the budgetary effect of repealing the...
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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...