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Report: The 2014 CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook, detailing the budget picture for the next 75 years. The report...
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Senate Finance Committee Hearing on Transportation Funding
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee held a hearing May 6th titled, “ New Routes for Funding and Financing Highways and Transit.” During the hearing Senators...
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Good News and Bad News for Federal Trust Funds
Read moreCBO’s latest budget outlook contained good news and bad news for some of the federal government’s largest trust funds. First, the bad news: CBO...
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The President's Budget Against Different Baselines
Read moreIn our paper on CBO's analysis of the President's budget, we compared how CBO and OMB estimated the budget's policies relative to CBO's baseline. Of...
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How Close Were Our Estimates of the President's Budget?
Read moreShortly after the President's budget was released, we suggested CBO might be somewhat more pessimistic in its debt projections than OMB. Specifically...
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CBO Releases Analysis of the President's Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of the President's FY 2015 budget, applying its own budget baseline and methodology to...
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CBO Projects Small Dip in Medicare Spending
Read moreOne of the notable changes in Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest budget baseline was a downward revision in projected Medicare spending from...
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Adding Realistic Assumptions to CBO's Baseline
Read moreCBO's most recent budget projections show debt on an unsustainable path – rising from a post-war record 73 percent of GDP today to 78 percent by 2024...
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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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“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...