Analysis: The President's FY 2017 Budget
President Obama's budget keeps the debt from rising as a share of the economy, but it does not address the key drivers of our long-term unsustainable debt.
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President Obama's budget keeps the debt from rising as a share of the economy, but it does not address the key drivers of our long-term unsustainable debt.
CBO projects that federal debt will remain at historically high levels over the next decade under current laws and warns that such high levels of debt could harm the economy.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/cbo-warns-fiscal-path-is-unsustainable-and-threatens-economic-growth
The State Budget Crisis Task Force released the first-ever comprehensive report detailing threats to states' fiscal sustainability and actions that can be taken to address them.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/grants/state-budget-crisis-task-force-announcement
The report focuses on the fiscal conditions in six heavily populated states which together account for a third of the nation's population and almost 40 cents of every dollar in spending by state and local governments.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/state-budget-crisis-task-force
Sequestration is a process that cuts federal spending through across-the-board reductions.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/what-you-should-know-about-the-sequester
Relative to the GAO’s last update of their long-term simulation, the nation’s fiscal condition has deteriorated.
The report anticipates that in 2020 — for the first time since 1982 — the program’s total costs will exceed its total income.
Over the next 10 years, the spending caps are projected to reduce deficits by approximately $900 billion, and the Supercommittee is charged with finding $1.5 trillion of additional savings.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/long-term-implications-of-the-budget-control-act-of-2011
The leaders we elect will be tasked with taming our growing national debt — making this one of the most critical elections in recent memory.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/will-the-presidential-candidates-debate-the-debt
Budget battles policymakers have engaged in have failed to produce reforms to address the true drivers of long-term national debt.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/averting-a-shutdown-the-numbers-behind-the-last-minute-budget-bill