07/14/2017

CBO: Trump Budget Wouldn't End Deficit in 10 Years

It would lower the deficit, though

President Donald Trump's budget would reduce the federal deficit — but it would not balance the budget over a decade as the White House promised, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Thursday.

Its report said that over a decade, the president's proposed fiscal 2018 budget would reduce the cumulative deficit by one-third relative to the CBO's baseline projection that assumes revenue and spending policies would stay largely unchanged. Debt as a percent of GDP would be an estimated 80 percent, 11 percent lower than under current projections, the CBO said.

The U.S. would run a budget deficit of $720 billion in 2027, versus the surplus that the White House projected under its policy, according to CBO estimates. The projection said Trump's budget would make the deficit fall by $3.3 trillion from 2018 to 2027, a much lower reduction than what the White House promised.

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