The federal deficit keeps growing and the Congressional Budget Office has solutions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : FEDERAL DEFICIT NEARS $2 TRILLION AND GETTING WORSE, EXPERTS WARNReducing the Department of Defense's annual budget authority by about $1 trillion over the next decade in 2025 dollar terms would translate to spending cuts amounting to $959 billion in spending cuts from 2025-2034.
55% : The CBO's deficit reduction options report includes reforms to both mandatory spending on programs like Social Security and Medicare, as well as discretionary spending and also changes to tax policy that would bring in more tax revenue.
54% : The CBO also analyzed savings from capping federal spending on Medicaid, a health care program for low-income Americans that is jointly funded by states and the federal government.
47% : The analysis looked at reducing funding for two of the largest areas in the non-defense discretionary budget - grants to state and local governments for transportation programs and education programs - by one-third.
46% : Here's a look at some of the notable deficit reduction options from the report, including changes to mandatory and discretionary spending programs as well as tax policies that are designed to bring in more revenue.

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