The Committee’s Board comprises some of the nation's leading budget experts, including many past heads of the House and Senate Budget Committees, the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of ...
Some of our most important federal programs are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through federal trust funds. Over the next decade, these trust funds face a combined $3.2 ...
One gimmicky temptation will be to pull a bait-and-switch with budget baselines and pretend that tax cuts should be scored against a “current policy baseline” – a baseline that assumes the policies ...
In May, CBO released an update to its Budget and Economic Outlook, showing cumulative deficits from 2014 to 2023 of $6.3 trillion and debt reaching 73.6 percent of GDP in 2023. We have also updated ...
The federal debt is nearly the size of the economy, and deficits are expected to exceed $1 trillion almost every year going forward. In order to help policymakers offset the cost of new spending ...