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Feb 27, 2025

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Budget Process

“Current Policy Baseline” Gimmick Could Explode the Debt

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Mar 13, 2025

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Other Spending

A $2 Trillion Cut Compared to $86 Trillion in Spending

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Apr 3, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

What’s in the Senate’s Concurrent FY 2025 Budget?

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Apr 3, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

What’s in the Senate’s Concurrent FY 2025 Budget?

The Senate Budget Committee unveiled its proposed concurrent Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution yesterday, setting the stage for reconciliation...

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Apr 3, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

How Much Did President Biden Add to the Debt?

Over the four years of President Biden’s term – from January 2021 through January 2025 – we estimate that he approved $4.7 trillion in new ten-year...

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Apr 2, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

CRFB Reacts to Senate Proposed Budget

The Senate Budget Committee released a draft amendment to the House’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution today, which the Senate intends to adopt...

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Apr 2, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

Senate Should Not Undermine Budget Rules to Pass Tax Cuts

In developing a budget resolution, the Senate had considered adopting a “current policy baseline” to obscure nearly $4 trillion of borrowing over the...

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Apr 2, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

Taxes

Rumored Senate Reconciliation Instructions Would Double Debt Growth

Press reports indicate that Senate leadership may release a proposed concurrent budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 as early as today with...

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Apr 1, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

Taxes

Fiscal Goals Become Very Difficult with Reconciliation Plans

It would take more than $7 trillion of ten-year savings to stabilize debt at the size of the economy by Fiscal Year (FY) 2034. But rather than making...

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US Budget Watch 2024

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