An Apples-to-Apples Comparison of the Deficit-Reduction Figures in the House and Senate Budget Plans
End Notes
[1] Robert Greenstein, “Commentary: Murray’s More Evenhanded Approach to Deficit Reduction Contrasts Sharply with Ryan’s,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 14, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3921.
[2] Robert Greenstein and Joel Friedman, “Commentary: A Look at the New Simpson-Bowles Plan,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 23, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3906.
[3] Richard Kogan, Robert Greenstein, and Joel Friedman, “$1.5 Trillion in Deficit Savings Would Stabilize the Debt Over the Coming Decade,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 11, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3900.
[4] Richard Kogan, “What Was Actually in Bowles-Simpson — And How Can We Compare it With Other Plans?” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, October 2, 2012, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3844.
[5] Paul N. Van de Water, “Medicare in Ryan’s 2014 Budget,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 15, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3922.
[6] See Edwin Park, “Ryan Budget Again Includes a Medicaid Block Grant That Would Add Millions to the Ranks of the Uninsured and Underinsured,” Off the Charts blog, March 15, 2013, http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryan-budget-again-includes-a-medicaid-block-grant-that-would-add-millions-to-the-ranks-of-uninsured-and-underinsured/.
[7] The House defense reductions would be achieved largely or entirely through reduced war spending. See Richard Kogan, “Ryan Budget Understates Defense Spending by $100 Billion,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 19, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3931.
[8] See Joel Friedman, “Ryan Budget Hits Non-Defense Discretionary Funding Far More Than Sequestration Does,” Off the Charts blog, March 14, 2013, http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryan-budget-hits-non-defense-discretionary-funding-far-more-than-sequestration-does/.
[9] We published our baseline assumptions in Appendix I of Richard Kogan, Robert Greenstein, and Joel Friedman, “$1.5 Trillion in Deficit Savings Would Stabilize the Debt over the Coming Decade,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 11, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3900. CRFB published the same baseline assumptions in “CRFB’s Realistic Baseline,” at http://crfb.org/crfbs-realistic-baseline.