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How Increasing Immigration Can Reduce the Deficit

And why the Congressional Budget Office does a poor job of making those estimates.

Reason · Feb 2, 2024

Congressional Budget Office projects lower inflation and higher unemployment into 2025

The Congressional Budget Office says it expects inflation to nearly hit the Federal Reserve’s 2% target rate in 2024, as overall growth is expected to slow and unemployment is expected to rise into 2025, according to updated economic projections for the next two years

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2023

Welfare Cuts Are Inevitable Because Congress Won't Touch Social Security

Until Congress is willing to acknowledge that it makes no sense to send monthly checks to wealthy seniors, everything else will be on the chopping block.

Reason · Sep 27, 2023

Biden's Latest Student Loan Scheme Has a Bigger Price Tag Than Originally Projected

The administration’s SAVE plan for student loan forgiveness is estimated to cost $475 billion.

Reason · Jul 19, 2023

Editorial: Budget agency pours ice water on Biden parade

How fitting that the Congressional Budget Office released its long-term fiscal projections Wednesday, the same day that President Joe Biden began his economic rehabilitation tour.

Tribune News Service · Jul 1, 2023

US public debt is projected to reach 181% of American economic activity in 30 years

The Congressional Budget Office is giving the world a concerning look at the U.S. government’s ledgers

The Independent UK · Jun 28, 2023

Budget loophole for Pentagon slush fund

Despite debt ceiling compromise, the Pentagon will continue to prove exempt from ceilings of any sort

Salon · Jun 21, 2023

Debt limit package passes House, heads to Senate - Roll Call

The House passed a bill Wednesday night to suspend the debt limit past the 2024 elections, sending the measure to the Senate.

Roll Call · Jun 1, 2023

What GOP got for pushing US to the brink

Republicans didn’t get most of what they sought in a bill they passed in April – though they did get some of it

Salon · May 30, 2023

COVID-19 clawbacks, spending caps and a cut – what House Republicans got in return for pushing the US to the brink of default

House Republicans pushed the U.S. to the edge of a fiscal crisis because they wanted deep cuts in government spending.

The Conversation · May 30, 2023