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Are Defense and Disasters Causing the Deficit Increase?
When asked about the increasing deficit, President Trump yesterday pointed to defense spending increases and disaster relief. While both of...
Riedl Proposes Debt Reduction Plan
Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, recently released a budget plan to stabilize debt over the long term. The plan proposes...
OMB and Congress Propose New Way to Budget for Federal Buildings
Both lawmakers and administration officials have recently begun advocating for a different approach to funding long-term physical federal investments...
FY 2018 Deficit Was $779 Billion
For Immediate Release
The Treasury Department today released a report showing the official fiscal year 2018 deficit was $779 billion, an increase of...
Chartbook: Budgeting for the Next Generation
This chartbook corresponds to our project "Budgeting for the Next Generation"
CBO Shows $782 Billion Deficit for FY 2018
Late last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the final FY 2018 deficit. CBO estimates that the deficit increased to...
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... -
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.
