Mar 15, 2017 | Budgets & Projections
Update: The Cost of Rising Interest Rates
Over the next decade, interest payments on the debt are projected to be the fastest growing part of the federal budget.
Last year, the federal...
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Mar 15, 2017 | Budget Process
Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling
Note: We have updated this Q&A. A new version is available here.
Attention is turning towards raising the federal debt ceiling, which will be...
Mar 13, 2017 | Budget Process
The Better Budget Process Initiative: Setting the Benchmark: Reforms to Budget Baseline Rules
Budget baselines are among the most important – but widely misunderstood – elements of budgeting and policymaking. The budgetary impact...
Feb 23, 2017 | Budgets & Projections
What We’d Like to See in President Trump’s FY 2018 “Skinny Budget”
The Trump Administration is expected to soon release its first budget outlining the President’s priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 and the...
Feb 16, 2017 | Taxes
Five Reasons to Pay for Tax Reform
An executive summary of this paper is available here. An updated version of this paper is available at Tax Reform Should Not Add to the Debt – Here's...
Feb 9, 2017 | Budgets & Projections
President Trump's Historic Debt Dilemma
As President Donald Trump begins his term, he faces perhaps the most daunting fiscal situation of any incoming president. President Trump enters...
Feb 7, 2017 | Budgets & Projections
Principles for the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Resolution
The Congressional budget resolution is a guiding document that should establish the nation’s budget priorities, the approach to financing them...
Jan 31, 2017 | Health Care
Chartbook: Affordable Care Act "Repeal & Replace" Effects & Implications
Below is a chartbook on the effects and implications of "repeal and replace" of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Below are the charts with...
Jan 24, 2017 | Budgets & Projections
CBO’s January 2017 Budget and Economic Outlook
As President Trump enters his first full week in office, new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections show that he faces an unsustainable fiscal...
Jan 17, 2017 | Health Care
Principles for Responsible "Obamacare" Repeal and Replace
Policymakers are expected to soon consider legislation to repeal and possibly replace large parts of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA” or...