Tax Policy Center

defense spending

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the national debt will increase by $19 trillion over the next decade under current law, $3 trillion more than it...
February 16, 2023Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox
While policy makers and news headlines focus on debates about health care and tax policy, the U.S. fiscal outlook remains troubling and is a constraint...
August 4, 2017William G. Gale
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
This week, the Trump Administration said it would ask Congress for big increases in defense spending which it would finance by...
March 1, 2017Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The election results did not change the political status quo, and the status quo has not been conducive to solving the nation’s festering fiscal problems...
December 17, 2012Rudolph G. Penner