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Its growing by 2.4%. the rate of growth is slowing. in 2020, the projection slips to just 1.7%. that is not all. keep in mind, the president keeps saying 4, 5, 6%. these are the numbers were actually talking about. the cbo has fresh projections now for the u.s. budget deficit, topping $1 trillion by fiscal year 2020. that is up, by the way, from $804 billion in 2018 and $981 billion in 2019. the spiking deficit courtesy of a $1 trillion in tax cuts and roughly $300 billion in new spending increa...

Legislation. now, the cbo projects that the u.s. economy is going to expand by 3.1% this year. this is down, by the way, of a previous forecast of 3.3%. but this years growth is largely attributed to companies being flush with cash thanks to the tax cuts combined with a surge in trading ahead of new tariffs. looking ahead to 2019, the cbo sticks with its previous projection that the economy will slow to a growth rate of 2.4%. in 2020, just 1.7%. and this is not all. the cbo also has fresh projec...

Of tapping the nations strategic reserves. that is a move that they say would only give us temporary relief at the pump and quite frankly it would also be quite unprecedented. >> bret: kevin, thank you. to the federal government is reporting a surplus of $214.3 billion in april. primarily reflects revenue from the tax filing deadline. the treasury department says that the surplus increased, 17.4% from a year ago. still congressional budget office estimates that deficits will be $804 billion, a $...

Competitors worldwide, we think we ought to move aggressively each year to make america more competitive, to make businesses more productive, to encourage more innovation and we are always looking for ways to make our tax code more family friendly. you know, just helping families stretch their budgets farther. our goal is every year to make our tax code and our country stronger. >> bret: all right. stretching budgets. you have the cbo out with budget deficit projections. and you take a look at t...

$804 billion this year, $1 trillion deficit by 2020. larry kudlow says not so, china may have blinked 3 times and offering trade concessions. and the move seen as an effort to defuse escalating trade tensions. donald trump predicting on twitter the two countries will make great progress together was the governors of 3 border states and national guard troops to the southern border but what about california? governor jerry brown refuses to force troops to the california border. >> the california n...

Projections released tonight. the congressional budget office combined a tax-cut bill in the latest spending plan will push the deficit to $804 billion and protects $1 trillion deficit in 2020, a republican said this is particularly sobering, at an unsustainable pace making it more difficult to achieve balance. and the scan behind rosie rhetoric from republicans the tax bill. waiting for the next move inside the pentagon for military options on syria. mark zuckerberg on capitol hill, his company...

Cut bill and the latest funding plan will push the deficit to $804 billion this year. the predicts the trillion dollar deficit by 2020. the budget chairman, a republican, says it is particularly so boring that mandatory spending continues to grow, as such an unsustainable pace, making it even more difficult to achieve balance. senate minority leader chuck schumer said this. "the cbos latest report exposes this game behind their rosy rhetoric from republicans that their tax bill would pay for its...

Curious about how seriously the famously low-key zuckerberg will be tomorrow. >> is he going to give me phony baloney? >> republicans in democrats are poised to ask tough questions tomorrow. these lawmakers have facebook pages where staffers try to add as many constituents as they can to keep them posted about what happens. >> bret: peter, we referenced it earlier. cbo just came out with this report announcing the budget deficit. their estimation, it would be just under $1 trillion next year, re...

Mortgage introduction it starts by him coming in and saying lets put a cap but the president continually moves the goal post. next year hell be back and say, okay lets do away with those deductions all together. its what he did in january when he was talking about revenue increases, he said lets raise the revenue well be done with that then well talk about spending, as soon as the ink was dry he was talking about raising more revenue. gregg: the white house is admitting that interest payments wi...

Cbo just announced the deficit figures and looking at them now, $804 billion in 2018 but if we do nothing looking at $1.5 trillion in 2018. in addition to that, you also saw the affordable care act, or obama care, repeal and replace did not happen. is that something those two things, do you think youll continue to work on those in whatever you decide to do next? >> those two things are one in the same. repealing and replacing obama care is entitlement reform. thats one big thing that we still ha...