Analysis: The President’s FY 2019 Budget Fails to Put Us on Responsible Fiscal Path
The President’s budget reflects a dramatically worse fiscal outlook than last year’s version released just nine months ago.
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The President’s budget reflects a dramatically worse fiscal outlook than last year’s version released just nine months ago.
The long-term budget outlook has deteriorated significantly since last year, when CBO projected debt would reach 111% of GDP in 30 years under current law.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2016/07/cbo-long-term-budget-outlook-worse-than-last-year
Medicare faces significant financial challenges in future years because of rising healthcare spending and an aging population.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2018/07/trustees-funding-challenges-threaten-medicares-future
CBO projects that, on our current path, the deficit will reach nearly $1 trillion next year and will total $12.4 trillion over the ten-year period from 2019.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2018/04/cbo-report-outlines-dramatically-worse-fiscal-outlook
The Trustees urge lawmakers to enact legislation soon to put Medicare on a sustainable path.
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-deficit-drop-is-temporary
Federal debt is already at its highest level as a percentage of GDP since 1950 and would exceed its all-time high by 2034 under current law.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2018/07/cbo-warns-historic-debt-levels-threaten-economy
A look at the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, on the 40th anniversary of its passage.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/q-and-a-congressional-budget-and-impoundment-control-act-of-1974
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.
The rapid growth in health care costs is the largest and fastest growing fiscal challenge.