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CRFB Publishes Analysis of CBO's 2015 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreYesterday, CRFB published an analysis of CBO’s latest Budget and Economic Outlook. The six-page document summarizes the forecasts and emphasizes the... -
CBO Report Shows Return of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Read moreTrillion-dollar deficits are coming back in 2025. That's one of the many stories told by the new budget update released today by the Congressional... -
Report: CBO's January 2015 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook today, showing their budget and economic forecasts through 2025. After... -
Are the Discretionary Spending Caps Sustainable?
Read moreThe biggest piece of deficit reduction that lawmakers have accomplished so far is the series of caps on annually appropriated discretionary spending... -
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Improving Focus on the Long Term
Read moreFor additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our Better Budget Process Initiative home page. The budget... -
We Need To Improve Focus on the Long Term
Read moreToday CRFB released a new paper as part of our Better Budget Process Initiative titled " Improving Focus on the Long Term." The budget process focuses... -
Energy and Commerce Holds First Hearing on SGR
Read moreThe House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Health Subcommittee yesterday held the first of two hearings on the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for... -
CRFB Budget Resolution Principles
Read moreOne of the first and most important priorities Congress should be agreeing to a budget resolution conference report that lays out a framework for... -
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Gene Steuerle: President Obama’s Middle-Class Tax Message in the State of the Union
Read moreDr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a member of the Committee for a Responsible...