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Congressional Budget Office weighs in on the next 30 years
by Reema Khrais
Mar 30, 2017
If you want to be loved, you don’t go to work for the Congressional Budget Office. The non-partisan agency’s job is to make economic projections and provide Congress with all sorts of budget data. Data that fails to account for…
When is a health care bill not a health care bill? When it's a tax bill.
by Dan Gorenstein
Mar 14, 2017
The GOP health plan includes $600 billion in tax cuts for the health industry and wealthy Americans.
24 million Americans could lose health insurance under GOP plan
by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Mar 13, 2017
The Congressional Budget Office's estimate is worse than analysts were expecting.
Who scores the GOP's revised health plan and its costs?
by Adam Allington
Mar 7, 2017
The Congressional Budget Office figures the price of new legislation and tries to predict behavioral changes.
Trump's infrastructure plan faces a fight on all fronts
by Mark Garrison
Jan 24, 2017
President Trump has stated he wants to put together a trillion-dollar infrastructure spending plan. Democrats are all for it – they’ve even come up with a plan of their own. Republicans will likely push back on either option. Especially now…
CBO predicts deficits about to get a lot worse
by Kimberly Adams
Jan 25, 2016
The Congressional Budget Office says this is the first such increase since 2009.
Final Note
The DHS gets funded ... for now
by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 3, 2015
Meanwhile, a showdown over debt could be looming.
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House changes how bills are evaluated
by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jan 8, 2015
"Dynamic scoring" of bills sounds boring, but it’s actually a big deal.
Tax rates hit historic low in 2009
by Jeff Horwich
Jul 11, 2012
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office says the tax rates paid by most Americans were at near-record lows in 2009. Who's paying less, who's paying more, and what's causing the change?