The Congressional Budget Office recently released a report analyzing the accuracy of their budget projections. The agency ...

This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...

Stabilizing debt over the next decade at its current share of the economy would require $9.0 trillion of deficit reduction relative to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its Options for Reducing the Deficit, outlining a number of p ...

Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed ...

U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...

The national debt continues to rise at a breakneck pace, with Americans bearing a greater and greater debt burden.

Most Americans like the Trump tax cuts. Now, Congress must decide what taxpayers would give up in order to keep them.

Fixed-income analysts and central bankers care about what’s driving the Treasury bond yield, and it’s something called the ...

Lawmakers haven’t even started talking about this problem, much less grappling with it realistically. The Congressional ...

After fours years of criticizing budget deficits under Joe Biden, Republicans now have a math problem of their own.