Budget Projections
Budget Deal Takes 20 Years to Offset Its Cost
The recently-enacted budget deal does not offset its ten-year cost like advocates have claimed, but what about the longer-term impact?
The deal...
Budget Deal Truly Offsets Only Half Its Cost
Lawmakers are currently considering a budget deal that would increase appropriated spending, suspend the debt limit until March 2017, reallocate...
Auerbach-Gale Projections Also Show Unsustainable Debt Picture
Alan Auerbach and William Gale at the Tax Policy Center recently released their frequently-updated budget projections. Their new outlook is familiar...
Interest Rates Continue to Fall in CBO's Forecast
CBO’s latest budget baseline projects ten-year deficit numbers to be slightly smaller than previously estimated, despite the passage of...
Three Scenarios for Projecting Debt
Our recent analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) August baseline focused on CBO's official current law baseline projections,...