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Issue: The Federal Budget: Spending, Taxes, and Debt
• Type: Infographics, Tables, & Charts
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The EPIC Budget Chartbook

March 2025
Matthew Dickerson and David Ditch
Spending is the Problem
The EPIC Budget Chartbook
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Executive Summary

The EPIC Budget Chartbook sounds the alarm on unsustainable debt and the problem of excessive spending.

Dive deeper with EPIC’s analysis of the latest CBO baseline: CBO Sounds The Alarm At The Beginning Of The 2025 Fiscal Cliff.

Updated march 30, 2025, to include data from the CBO  Long Term Budget Outlook. 

Topics: Baseline, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Debt, Deficit, Discretionary Spending, Federal Budget, Mandatory Spending, Spending
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Director of Budget Policy

Matthew D. Dickerson is Director of Budget Policy at the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC).

David Ditch

Senior Analyst in Fiscal Policy

David A. Ditch is Senior Analyst in Fiscal Policy at the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC).

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