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Has President Obama Doubled the National Debt?
Read moreWhile accepting the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump said, "President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19...
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Is the U.S. the Highest Taxed Nation in the World?
Read moreAs he accepted the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump stated that “America is one of the highest-taxed countries in the world,” while...
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Latest Health Spending Projection Shows Higher Spending Growth Ahead
Read moreThe Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its National Health Expenditure (NHE) projections for 2015-2025 last week. National health...
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The Long-Term Outlook Could Be Even Worse Than CBO Says
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows debt nearly doubling as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next 30...
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The Very, Very Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows growing federal debt over the next 30 years, but we extended those projections to 75...
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What Donald Trump Can Do to Improve His Tax and Spending Policies
Read moreIn a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, Donald Trump’s economic advisers Andy Puzder and Stephen Moore stated that the campaign will release changes...
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OMB’s Mid-Session Review Confirms Growing Deficits Ahead
Read moreThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released today the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Mid-Session Review (MSR), which updates both OMB’s budget baseline...
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Chairman Enzi Proposes Budget Process Reforms
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) outlined his recommendations for budget process reform yesterday based on bipartisan discussions in...
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Rep. Ribble Releases Legislation to Make Social Security Solvent
Read moreRepresentative Reid Ribble (R-WI) along with a bipartisan group of cosponsors released the Save Our Social Security Act today, a bill which would make...
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Shedding Light on the Fiscal State of the Nation
Read moreRepresentative Jim Renacci (R-OH) along with Representative John Carney (D-DE) and 22 other original cosponsors introduced a bipartisan Fiscal State...
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Statement by Maya MacGuineas on Introduction of the Save Our Social Security Act
Read moreRep. Reid Ribble and the co-sponsors of the Save Our Social Security Act deserve huge praise for putting forward a serious and responsible plan to...
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CBO Shows an Unsustainable Long-Term Fiscal Path
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook, showing a clearly unsustainable long-term path for the federal...