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Congress Might Gladly Pay You in 2022 for Sequester Relief Today
Read moreA recent press report (paywall) indicates that Republicans may be looking to pay for increased defense spending next year by promising defense cuts... -
Most of Deficit's Decline Because Tax Breaks Aren't Included
Read moreMuch of the press coverage of the updated projections issued by the Congressional Budget Office last week focused on the fact that the deficit would... -
Growing Health & Interest Spending to Overwhelm Flat Revenue
Read moreCBO's recent budget projections show debt growing in the latter half of the decade as deficits widen. Entitlement spending will continue to grow as a... -
Interest Rates Continue to Fall in CBO's Forecast
Read moreCBO’s latest budget baseline projects ten-year deficit numbers to be slightly smaller than previously estimated, despite the passage of legislation... -
Bipartisan Policy Center Publishes SSDI Recommendations
Read moreThe Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) recently convened a Disability Insurance Working Group and released their recommendations to address the upcoming... -
Three Scenarios for Projecting Debt
Read moreOur recent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) August baseline focused on CBO's official current law baseline projections, which show... -
CRFB Breaks Down the Newest CBO Budget Projections
Read moreCRFB has released its analysis of CBO's latest ten-year budget projections, detailing the important facts from the report and how it has changed from... -
CBO Still Shows Unsustainable Debt in its August Baseline
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its August baseline, updating budget projections from March and economic projections from January... -
Report: Analysis of CBO’s Updated Budget and Economic Outlook August 2015
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its updated budget and economic projections for the coming decade, showing that while short-term... -
Event Recap: McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Conference
Read moreOn Tuesday, August 4, 2015, the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative hosted its SSDI Solutions Conference, presenting the 12 papers commissioned... -
Immigration Reform Drives Positive Economic Effects of the President's Budget
Read moreCBO released its estimate of the economic effects of the President's budget late last week, doing dynamic scoring for the President's budget. Like... -
Judd Gregg: Ensuring Social Security’s Future
Read moreSocial Security faces very serious financial challenges, and its own trustees estimate that its deficits will lead to trust fund insolvency by 2034.