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View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.

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May 31, 2012 | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

Report: Understanding Dynamic Scoring

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May 1, 2012 | Social Security

Op-Ed: Social Security Disability System Is Broken

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Apr 26, 2012 | Health Care| Budgets & Projections| Social Security| Taxes

Report: Americans Tackle the Debt

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Apr 24, 2012 | Budgets & Projections

Op-Ed: How About a Presidential Debate On Hard Fiscal Issues?

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Apr 23, 2012 | Budgets & Projections| Social Security

Report: Analysis of the Social Security Trustees Report

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Apr 23, 2012

Release: Debate the Debt

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Apr 17, 2012 | Budgets & Projections

Op-Ed: US Must Address Its Balance Sheet

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Mar 28, 2012

National Debt Tour: New York City

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Mar 19, 2012 | Budgets & Projections

CBO's Analysis of the President's FY 2013 Budget

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Mar 13, 2012 | Budgets & Projections

CBO’s Projections Show Need for Smart, “Go Big” Approach: Comparing Major Debt Reduction Plans

CRFB has published an updated version of this comparison chart on its blog,...
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Feb 23, 2012 | Budgets & Projections

Primary Numbers: The GOP Candidates and the National Debt

The United States faces a number of serious fiscal and economic challenges. Federal budget deficits are projected for the foreseeable future, the...
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Feb 16, 2012 | Budgets & Projections

Report: Analysis of the President's FY 2013 Budget

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Feb 15, 2012

Budget Slideshow: Averting a Fiscal Crisis - Why America Needs Comprehensive Fiscal Reforms Now

CRFB has compiled an extended version of its "Averting a Fiscal Crisis" PowerPoint that also deals with why America needs a...
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Jan 31, 2012 | Budgets & Projections

Report: Analysis of CBO's Budget and Economic Projections and CRFB's Realistic Baseline

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Jan 25, 2012 | Budgets & Projections

What We Hope to See From the Extensions Conference Committee

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Jan 24, 2012 | Budget Process

Maya MacGuineas Testimony Before House Rules Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for Biennial Budgeting

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Dec 15, 2011 | Budgets & Projections

The 12 Principles of Fiscal Responsibility for the 2012 Campaign

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Dec 12, 2011 | Budgets & Projections| Taxes

Dealing with Expiring Provisions in a Fiscally Responsible Manner

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Dec 12, 2011 | Taxes

Op-Ed: How to Pay for the Payroll Tax Cut

The Atlantic...
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Nov 16, 2011 | Budgets & Projections

Going Big Means Don't Stop Until You Get Enough

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