Budgets & Projections
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CBO Report Shows Return of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Read moreTrillion-dollar deficits are coming back in 2025. That's one of the many stories told by the new budget update released today by the Congressional...
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Report: CBO's January 2015 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook today, showing their budget and economic forecasts through 2025. After...
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Improving Focus on the Long Term
Read moreFor additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our Better Budget Process Initiative home page. The budget...
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CRFB Budget Resolution Principles
Read moreOne of the first and most important priorities Congress should be agreeing to a budget resolution conference report that lays out a framework for...
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Fiscal Speed Bumps: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities
Read moreIn the coming months and years, lawmakers will face a number of important budget-related deadlines, or Fiscal Speed Bumps, that will require...
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The House's New Rule on Dynamic Scoring
Read moreThis week, the House approved a rule change related to dynamic scoring. Specifically, the rule would require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and...
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House GOP Kicks Off New Congress with Fiscal Irresponsibility
Read moreThe 114th Congress has barely even started and House Republicans are already proposing to explicitly ignore pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules that require...
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Senators Chambliss and Coburn Bid Farewell, Talk Fiscal Issues
Read moreThe end of the 113th Congress saw the retirement of two Senators who actively fought for controlling and limiting the U.S. federal debt. Senators...