The Social Security and Medicare Trustees reports provide a detailed projection of each program's finances over the next 75 years. In response, we...

The American Enterprise Institute held an event Thursdsay commemorating the 50th anniversary of the start of the War on Poverty. The event, “Expanding...

Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released reports on the financial state of the country's largest entitlement programs. The reports...

In a recent New York Times column, economist Paul Krugman argued that the focus on the national debt represented “an imaginary budget and debt crisis...

This week, the Senate agreed by unanimous consent to consider the House-passed highway bill, H.R. 5021. The agreement allows for the consideration of...

In its release this week of the economic effects of the President's budget, CBO found it would increase the size of the economy, mainly due to...

In our series on the long-term budget outlook, we covered how debt projections would change if some of CBO's economic and technical assumptions turned...

In the coming days, the Senate will vote on the House-passed measure to replenish the Highway Trust Fund. The bill is a last-ditch effort to prevent...

Although most of our analysis of CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook has focused on debt projections, CBO also makes projections about the solvency of...

Any budget projection is inherently uncertain, and that uncertainty is magnified when the projection period is extended to 25 or 75 years, as the...