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How to Deal With Budget Projection Uncertainty
Read moreIn our series on the long-term budget outlook, we covered how debt projections would change if some of CBO's economic and technical assumptions turned... -
CRFB's Maya MacGuineas on the Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThis week, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas appeared on Bloomberg Television to discuss the CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook and how imperative it is for... -
Quantifying the Cost of Waiting to Address Debt
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Long-Term Budget Outlook shows a clearly unsustainable debt path over the long term, one that policymakers... -
CBO: Social Security Trust Fund To Be Exhausted 1 Year Earlier, in 2030
Read moreOne of the biggest stories of last year's long-term outlook was the deterioration in Social Security's financial picture. Largely due to CBO's... -
CBO Releases 2014 Long-term Outlook
Read moreEarlier today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Long-Term Budget Outlook. Although CBO normally makes ten-year projections... -
CRFB Analyzes the CBO Long-Term Outlook
Read moreCBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook is a long and detailed 140-page document – filled to the brim with facts, figures, scenarios and assumptions – and... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...