Budget and Spending

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Federal spending has grown rapidly over the last decade, leading to substantial budget deficits that have crippled the economy and financially harmed Americans.

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The Road to Inflation: How an Unprecedented Federal Spending Spree Created Economic Turmoil

Sep 21, 2023 Over an hour read

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BACKGROUNDER

Funding Leftism: The Biden’s Administration’s Bureaucratic Radicalism

Apr 18, 2024 30 min read

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David Ditch

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FY 2012 Spending Blows Through Cap, CBO Shows Patrick Louis Knudsen

Feb 8, 2012 3 min read

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CBO Baseline: A Few Quirks Do Not Distract from a Dismal Picture J.D. Foster, Ph.D.

Feb 1, 2012 5 min read

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New CBO Budget Baseline Reveals Permanent Trillion-Dollar Deficits Brian M. Riedl

Jan 26, 2011 6 min read

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How to Cut $343 Billion from the Federal Budget Brian M. Riedl

Oct 28, 2010 14 min read

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New CBO Budget Baseline Shows that Soaring Spending—Not Falling Revenues—Risk... Brian M. Riedl

Aug 19, 2010 5 min read

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Stimulus Jobs Count: CBO Admits It Ignored the Economy’s Actual Performance Brian M. Riedl

Mar 23, 2010 3 min read

Commentary

Congressional Spenders Ignore Deepening Government Waste Brian M. Riedl

Nov 9, 2009 2 min read

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Massive Debt to Drive U.S. Decline Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D.

Oct 30, 2009 3 min read

Experts on Budget and Spending

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Rachel Greszler

Senior Research Fellow, Roe Institute

Parker Sheppard, PhD, PhD

Director, Center for Data Analysis

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David Ditch

Senior Policy Analyst, Hermann Center for the Federal Budget

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Richard Stern

Director, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget

Thomas Dans

Visiting Fellow, Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies

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Budget and Spending