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Comparing President Trump’s Record to His 2016 Agenda
During the 2016 campaign, US Budget Watch estimated that then-candidate Donald Trump’s proposed agenda would add $4.6 trillion to budget deficits...
CBO Reports $198 Billion Deficit for August, Pushing FY 2020 Total to $3 Trillion
For Immediate Release The United States' budget deficit for the month of August was $198 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The...
Analysis of CBO’s September 2020 Budget Outlook
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated budget outlook – the first to incorporate the effects of the COVID-19 public health...
CBO Projects Debt Will Reach New Record
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its updated Budget Outlook , showing that the COVID-19 public health and economic crisis has...
CBO’s Post-COVID Budget Baseline Reveals Magnitude of Future Fiscal Challenge
For Immediate Release The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its first post-COVID Budget and Economic Outlook for the next decade this...
How Much COVID Relief Have Public and Private Schools Received?
At least $42 billion has been committed or disbursed to the education sector from COVID relief legislation. We estimate: About 55 percent of those...
Project Spotlight
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American Health Care: Rethinking the Challenges, Opportunities, and... -
There is a growing consensus that the budget process is broken.... -
In our series, Budgeting for the Next Generation,[*]we review federal... -
Our Fiscal FactCheck series holds policymakers and candidates... -
FixUS seeks to better understand the root causes of our nation’s... -
The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is a project dedicated... -
The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a non-partisan national movement...
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public on issues with significant fiscal policy impact.
