Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

The President's FY 2016 Budget Series

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Immigration Reform Drives Positive Economic Effects of the President's Budget

CBO released its estimate of the economic effects of the President's budget late last week, doing dynamic scoring for the President's budget...
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Health Care Policies in the President's Budget

Lawmakers often lament the difficulty of reforming Medicare and other health care programs, but the difficulty is not a lack of viable options. One...

Our Analysis of CBO's Estimate of the President's Budget is Here

We've released our analysis of CBO's estimate of the President's budget, breaking down the report and its supplementary data in less than six pages....

CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget is Here

CBO has just released its analysis of the President's FY 2016 budget, using its own numbers and

Evaluating The Cost of Climate Change

We've written extensively about the President's budget since it was released, both in our analysis of the budget and in our blog series. Also notable...
Social Security

The President’s Social Security Proposals

The President proposed last week, through his FY 2016 budget, a number of proposals to reform Social Security in small ways, including measures to...

President's Budget Proposes to Completely Wind Down War Spending

President Obama sent a letter to Congress yesterday asking for a formal three-year authorization for a campaign against ISIS. At the same time,...

Dispelling Common Myths in the SSDI Debate

The President's FY 2016 Budget last week proposed dealing with the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump of the exhaustion of the Social Security Disability...

The President's Budget Stabilizes Debt Over the Long Term...Maybe

In addition to showing estimates over the next ten years, the President's budget includes in its lengthy Analytical Perspectives section a 25-year...

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