CBO Shows the President's Budget Doesn't Solve the Problem

Press Release

This afternoon, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis of the President's fiscal year 2014 budget. CBO found that the President's budget would add $115 billion more to the deficit in 2014 than if we just did nothing. The CBO estimates that the President's budget increases taxes by $974 billion. As a result of spending $46.5 trillion over the next decade, the budget ends with a $542 billion deficit in FY2023. By contrast, the House-passed budget balances by 2023.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin released the following statement:

"This new report shows that the President's budget doesn't come close to solving the problem. The federal government will take in a record haul over the next ten years. And the President wants yet another massive tax hike. But under his plan, we'll keep adding to the debt--at an alarming rate. The government is taking more from hardworking taxpayers only to spend more in Washington."

Contrast in visions:

-Change in spending over the next decade

*Without the gimmicks, the President's budget increases spending by $853 billion.

*House-passed budget decreases spending by $4.6 trillion.

-Change in revenue over the next decade

*President's budget increases taxes by $974 billion.

*House-passed budget advances revenue-neutral tax reform.

-Balance date:

*President's budget: Never

*House-passed budget: 2023

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