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CBO's Latest Estimate of TARP: $27 Billion
Read moreCaught up in the release of CBO's baseline and its analysis of the President's budget last week was another CBO update of their estimate of the...
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Pentagon to Release Afghanistan Requests
Read moreWith the U.S.'s involvement in Afghanistan set to wind down at the end of the year, there is some uncertainty about the military presence in 2015 and...
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An Apples-to-Apples Comparison of the FY 2015 Budgets
Read moreEvery year when the President releases his budget, CBO re-estimates the budget using a baseline set of economic assumptions – the same as it uses for...
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Farm Spending in the April 2014 CBO Baseline
Read moreCBO recently released an update to its 2014-2024 baseline including the first detailed agriculture projections since May 2013. Since then, Congress...
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Good News and Bad News for Federal Trust Funds
Read moreCBO’s latest budget outlook contained good news and bad news for some of the federal government’s largest trust funds. First, the bad news: CBO...
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The President's Budget Against Different Baselines
Read moreIn our paper on CBO's analysis of the President's budget, we compared how CBO and OMB estimated the budget's policies relative to CBO's baseline. Of...
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How Close Were Our Estimates of the President's Budget?
Read moreShortly after the President's budget was released, we suggested CBO might be somewhat more pessimistic in its debt projections than OMB. Specifically...
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CBO Releases Analysis of the President's Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of the President's FY 2015 budget, applying its own budget baseline and methodology to...
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CRFB's Report on CBO's Analysis of the President's FY 2015 Budget
Read moreCBO has released their analysis of the President's FY 2015 Budget and CFRB released a report summarizing the findings. CBO finds a less optimistic...
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CBO Projects Small Dip in Medicare Spending
Read moreOne of the notable changes in Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest budget baseline was a downward revision in projected Medicare spending from...
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Club for Growth: Quit Renewing the 'Temporary' Tax Breaks
Read moreIn the Wall Street Journal today, Chris Chocola of the right-leaning Club for Growth called for Congress not to renew the expired "tax extenders."...