Policymakers Should Reform Student Loan Programs
Lawmakers will need offsets to keep year-end legislation from substantially worsening the debt, and one area we've suggested in our Mini-Bargain and...
The President's FY 2017 Budget Series
OMB’s Mid-Session Review Confirms Growing Deficits Ahead
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released today the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Mid-Session Review (MSR), which updates both OMB’s budget...
CBO Estimates Economic Effects of the President's Final Budget
In addition to producing its own estimate of the budgetary effects of the President's budget, CBO typically estimates the economic effects of the...
Breaking Down CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its own estimate of the FY 2017 President's budget yesterday, a document that includes a 16-page...
CBO Releases Its Own Take on the President's Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its analysis of the Fiscal Year 2017 President's budget, finding that under the President...
Viewing the President's Budget Through a CBO Lens
The President’s Budget relies on assumptions from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), but we estimate that when it is estimated by the...
Why the President's Last Budget Will Matter
With the release of the President's FY 2017 budget, it is common for reporters and observers to say that the budget is dead on arrival on Capitol...
What's New in the President's FY 2017 Budget
The final budget of the Obama Presidency continues a mix of long-standing policies (including a few that have been in all eight budgets) and policies...
CRFB Publishes Paper on President's FY 2017 Budget
President Obama released his final budget proposal yesterday, and we released a short paper that analyzes its major policy proposals. This...