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CBO's Long-Term Debt Outlook Improved Slightly from Last Year, Here's Why
Read moreIn its latest Long-Term Budget Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects debt held by the public will rise from over 78 percent of Gross...
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Are There $1.6 Trillion in Tax Loopholes?
Read moreFormer Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden told the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention on June 28 that the tax code contains $1.6...
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New Pension Bill Adds Too Much to the Debt
Read moreThe House Ways and Means Committee is considering pension reform legislation that CBO estimates will add $ 64 billion to deficits over the next ten...
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Gene Steuerle: Alice Rivlin: The George Washington of the Congressional Budget Office
Read moreAlice Rivlin, who passed away on May 14, was among the greatest public servants of the modern era.
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Saving Social Security and Medicare Could Help Fix the Debt
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Long-Term Budget Outlook shows debt rising continuously as a share of the economy over the next 30 years and...
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David Walker: It is time to confront fiscal failure
Read moreDavid Walker is a former Comptroller General of the United States (head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office) and past board member of the...
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Mike Murphy: The question to ask in 2020
Read moreMike Murphy is the director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's FixUS initiative. He recently wrote an opinion piece for The Fulcrum...
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Senate Should Pass Budget Plan Before Defense Authorization
Read moreFor Immediate Release The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020 to authorize...
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Would a 10% VAT Pay for a $1,000 per Month UBI?
Read moreDuring the first 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate, candidate Andrew Yang claimed that his Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposal of $1,000...
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CBO: Fixing the Debt Would Increase Income
Read morePutting debt on a downward path could increase average income by almost $9,000 per person per year, or about 10 percent as compared to continuing on...
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US Budget Watch 2020 Will Hold Candidates Accountable for Their Fiscal Promises
Read moreFor Immediate Release The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched its US Budget Watch 2020 project Wednesday, an initiative to...
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CBO Releases 2019 Long-Term Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its 2019 Long-Term Outlook, again confirming the budget’s unsustainable long-term trajectory...