Wonkbook: A Congress problem, not a deficit problem

On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office released its latest long-term budget outlook . As always, the scorekeepers offered up two scenarios: In the first, Congress does nothing, follows the laws currently on the books -- which means the tax cuts expire, the Medicare cuts from the 1997 Balanced ...

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