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CBO

Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
The Congressional Budget Office is always under pressure to do something differently, usually by lawmakers trying to get a more favorable budget score for their...
August 9, 2017Robert McClelland
: TaxVox
The House Freedom Caucus wants to eliminate the Budget Analysis Division at the Congressional Budget Office and rely on outside research organizations, including the Urban...
July 25, 2017Donald Marron
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Much like the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Senate leadership’s health bill includes a huge tax cut that mostly benefits the nation’s highest-income...
June 26, 2017Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The Congressional Budget Office is under unprecedented political attack. These criticisms are overblown, and likely will prove to be counterproductive—even to those making them. CBO’s...
June 23, 2017Rudolph G. Penner
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
Here is one way to think about the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation score of the House Republican health bill : By...
March 14, 2017Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
House Republicans are pushing for quick passage of The American Health Care Act (AHCA), which would modify or repeal many aspects of the Affordable Care...
March 10, 2017Benjamin R. Page
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
President Trump and Congress are likely to consider an historically broad range of tax and spending changes over the next year. But they’ll be doing...
February 3, 2017Howard Gleckman
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
The Congressional Budget Office’s long term budget outlook is a curious document. On one hand, a 30-year fiscal forecast will almost certainly be wrong. But...
July 12, 2016Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox
A new Congressional Budget Office report does a nice job of busting some of the most persistent tax myths of both the political left and...
June 9, 2016Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
That headline sure sounds geeky. But if you have any interest in future tax reform, immigration reform, or health care reform, the way the Congressional Budget Office scores the budgetary effects of major legislation matters--a lot. And yesterday CBO issued a supplemental analysis of President Obama’s budget that included a full-blown look at how that fiscal plan would affect the economy, and what those economic changes would mean for future deficits.
June 7, 2016Howard Gleckman