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8 Great Ways To Grapple With Gimmicks
Read moreIn recent years, lawmakers have frequently used budget gimmicks to get around rules designed to maintain budgetary discipline -- if they pay attention...
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Strengthening Statutory Budget Enforcement
Read moreFor additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our Better Budget Process Initiative home page.
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Waiting To Reduce Debt Makes It More Difficult
Read moreIn their recently released long-term outlook, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) laid out multiple scenarios for addressing our unsustainable long...
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Senate Budget Committee Hearing on CBO Long-Term Fiscal Outlook
Read moreLast week, CBO Director Keith Hall testified before the Senate Budget Committee on the release of CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook. Senators questioned...
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ACA Repeal Could Add $5 Trillion to the Debt Within 20 Years
Read moreMuch of the focus on the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) score for repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) naturally has focused on the ten-year...
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Shoring Up Trust Funds Greatly Improves Debt
Read moreThe main focus of CBO's long-term budget outlook is rightly on the unified budget numbers regarding spending, revenue, deficits, and debt. But it is...
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New Affordable Care Act Repeal Estimate Still Shows Deficit Increase
Read moreFor the first time in nearly three years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new estimate of the budgetary effect of repealing the...
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Senator Flake Publishes “Jurassic Pork”
Read moreWhat do earmarks and dinosaurs have in common? Both are extinct, but their skeletons still remain. Last week, Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) joined the...
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House IPAB Repeal Vote Would Damage the Long-Term Outlook
Read moreIsn’t it ironic, mere days after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warns about our nation’s long-term fiscal challenges in its annual report, the...
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Looking at the Long Term in 2015
Read moreCBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook, released yesterday, is a detailed 130-page document, filled with budget projections for the next 25 years, along with...
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CBO Shows an Unsustainable Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its 2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook, showing a clearly unsustainable long-term path for debt. The...