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Immigration Reform Drives Positive Economic Effects of the President's Budget
Read moreCBO released its estimate of the economic effects of the President's budget late last week, doing dynamic scoring for the President's budget. Like...
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JCT Confirms: Dynamic Scoring Doesn't Make Extenders Look Much Better
Read moreLawmakers have so far been reluctant to pay for the group of temporary tax cuts known as the " tax extenders," instead generally just adding the cost...
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Gap Widens Between Trustees and CBO on Social Security
Read moreAlthough the Social Security Trustees estimate the program's financial outlook has slightly improved relative to last year, the Congressional Budget...
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Sources of Spending Growth in the Long Term
Read moreOver the past few weeks, we have been posting in-depth analysis of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Long-Term Outlook. In its supplemental data...
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CBO Forecasts Costs of Climate Change
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released new estimates of the cost of climate change, specifically as it relates to hurricanes. The report...
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How Uncertain Are CBO's Long-Term Projections?
Read moreAny budget projections, including CBO's long-term outlook, are inherently uncertain, and it is important to understand how projections might change...
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CBO's Outlook for Long-Term Health Care Spending
Read moreHealth care spending is arguably the most important part of CBO's long-term outlook, being a key driver of our nation's growing debt over the long...
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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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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...