Description
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas talked about the national debt and the Congressional Budget Office projection that raises the U.S. budget deficit forecast to close to $2 trillion in 2024, among other projected indicators.
7 minutes
Keywords
- 401k
- Congressional Budget Office
- Debt
- Deficit
- Economic
- Fiscal
- Foreigner
- Gross Domestic Product
- Interest Rate
- Lend
- Recession
- Revenue
- Social Security
- Tax
- Treasuries
- Trust Fund
- World War Two (1939-45)
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