The federal budget deficit totaled $1.7 trillion in Calendar Year (CY) 2025, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The deficit in CY 2025 is $369 billion less than the ...
Under the CRFB August Adjusted Baseline, debt will reach 120% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits will rise to $2.6 ...
In Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget (NBER Working Paper 34455), Alan J. Auerbach and William Gale develop fiscal projections that incorporate the recently enacted One Big ...
WASHINGTON -- Despite increasing revenues from tariffs on imported goods, the federal government reported a monthly deficit of $291.1 billion for July, a 19.4% increase from July 2024's monthly ...
The U.S. federal deficit remains historically high, but recent fiscal swings have not significantly disrupted economic growth or inflation trends. Since 2009, the Federal Reserve's shift to a quantity ...
Corporate America loves huge and growing federal government deficits. Few corporate leaders will admit this, but the fact is that a dramatic reduction in the federal deficit would lead to a decline of ...