Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Debt & Deficits

Donald Trump

Maya MacGuineas: Donald’s dangerous debt-deficit delusion

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an
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Telling the Whole Story on Interest and Long-Term Debt

In a recent blog, New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman criticized Donald Trump's recent suggestion that he'll "negotiate...
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Maya MacGuineas: Dangers in Donald Trump’s Debt Suggestions

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Camp
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Debt Will Rise Under the Next President

Our recent updates and analyses of the fiscal policies of
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Halfway Through the Year, FY 2016 Leads FY 2015 in Deficits

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for Ma
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Katherine Gehl & Maya MacGuineas: Debt and deficits rising: Who has courage?

Katherine Gehl, former president & CEO of Gehl Foods, Inc., and a member of the CEO Fiscal Leadership Council of the Campaign to Fi

How The March Baseline Reiterates Our Distressing Fiscal Path

The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) updated March baselin
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Auerbach-Gale Analysis Agrees on the Worsening Fiscal Outlook

Alan Auerbach of the University of California-Berkeley and William Gale of the Tax Policy Center recently published a report, "Once More Unto...

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