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The White House Projects the Debt Will Fix Itself
Read moreThe Trump Administration has touted its recent FY 2020 President’s Budget as balancing the budget in just 15 years. However, additional budget...
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Debt Would Rise, Not Fall, Under the President’s Budget
Read moreThe President’s budget estimates it would reduce debt to 71 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits to $202 billion (0.6 percent of GDP)...
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Three-Fifths of This Year's Deficit is Policymakers' Fault
Read moreThe budget deficit will be almost $900 billion this year according to projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). By our estimates, 60...
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Economists Agree: Deficits Matter
Read moreRarely do economists agree on anything. But a survey this week through the University of Chicago's IGM Forum found that 42 top economists from across...
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Does the President's Budget Slash Medicare by $845 Billion?
Read morePresident Trump's Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget released Monday has been met with significant criticism, especially from us. But one of the most widely...
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Marc Goldwein and Russ Latino: Congress Must Break its Addiction to Unjust Tax Extenders
Read moreMarc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Russ Latino is vice president...
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An Overview of the President's FY 2020 Budget
Read moreMoments ago, President Trump released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget proposals, outlining his tax and spending proposals for the next decade. We...
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Analysis of the President’s FY 2020 Budget
Read moreThe Trump Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget proposal today, outlining the President’s tax and spending priorities over the next...
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President’s Budget Would Add More than $10 Trillion to the Debt
Read moreFor Immediate Release: President Donald Trump released a portion of his fiscal year 2020 budget Monday, which proposes a number of tax and spending...
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Bipartisan Recommendations to Reduce Health Spending from Brookings and AEI
Read moreExperts from the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute have released a joint list of recommendations to reduce health care costs...
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Health Spending Outlook Shows Faster Growth Ahead
Read moreThe Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new National Health Expenditure (NHE) projections through 2027, showing health...
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What We’d Like to See in President Trump’s FY 2020 Budget
Read moreReports suggest the Trump administration will release its FY 2020 budget in two parts, beginning next week. With debt at post-war record highs...