Budgets & Projections
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CBO Continues to Show Unsustainable Debt Path
Read moreIn advance of the release of their analysis of the President's budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated their budget baseline for...
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Health Reform's Coverage Costs Decline by $104 Billion
Read moreThe budget estimates in the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) baseline released today may have looked largely the same as in February's report...
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How the House-Passed Budget Tightens Defense Spending Caps
Read moreIn our discussion of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget, we talked about one area where the budget actually boosts spending...
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Comparing Debt Under the FY2015 Budgets
Read moreBudgets for the upcoming fiscal year have been released from the White House, House Republicans, House Democrats, the Republican Study Committee, the...
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Congressional Black Caucus Releases Budget
Read moreFollowing House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget markup last week and floor debate this week, the Congressional Black Caucus budget...
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Health Care Reforms in Chairman Paul Ryan's FY 2015 Budget
Read moreBudget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) FY 2015 budget achieves $3 trillion of its $5.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ten years...
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The Republican Study Committee's Alternative Budget
Read moreJust after House Democrats released their budget this week, the Republican Study Committee has come out with its own proposal to balance the budget in...
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“Long-Term SCORE Act” Introduced Today
Read moreCongressman Reid Ribble (R-WI) and Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced the Long-Term Studies of Comprehensive Outcomes and Returns for the...
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House Democrats Release Alternative FY 2015 Budget
Read moreThis blog has corrected the amount of Medicare savings in the budget. It previously said $50 billion, but that included the cost of repealing the...
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Budget Scoring Proposals in Ryan's Budget
Read moreAlthough the primary purpose of a budget resolution is to set spending and revenue levels to govern the consideration of legislation by Congress, it...
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Taking the Long View on the Ryan Budget
Read moreHouse Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget would substantially reduce deficits and debt over ten years, but one remaining question is what the...
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Discretionary Spending in Ryan's FY 2015 Budget
Read moreMuch of the focus in House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget inevitably falls on the changes it it would make to mandatory spending, of...