Budgets & Projections

The latest CBO projections show a slight improvement on our fiscal situation over the previous ones made in January, and lower projected health...

In advance of its scheduled release of an analysis of the President's budget, CBO has updated its budget projections for the next ten years. Their new...

Did you know that nearly 75 dollars out of every 100 dollars in taxes paid goes to just four major areas? Monday’s USA Today front page featured data...

October or November -- that's the deadline by which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts lawmakers must increase the debt...

Every year, the Treasury Department releases the Financial Report of the United States Government, which provides a detailed picture of the government...

Speculation over the next director of the Congressional Budget Office ended today as the House and Senate Budget Committees announced that Keith Hall...

No matter how difficult the conversation, the national debt needs to be a top priority in the 2016 presidential election, and the next president needs...

CBO unofficially closed the books on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, or the 2009 stimulus), putting out its final report on the...

Next Tuesday will be the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Congressional Budget Office, and University of Maryland Professor Phillip Joyce has...

As we've mentioned frequently, budget projections and economic forecasts are inextricably linked in determining both the nominal dollar budget numbers...