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Senate Budget Could Enable Unprecedented Deficit Increase
The Senate’s proposed concurrent Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution would allow policymakers to add $5.8 trillion to primary deficits through...
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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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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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Tax Cut Extensions Would Add $37 Trillion to Debt by 2054
In a recent letter, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that extending and reviving various provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
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Ending Taxes Below $150,000 Would Lose $10 to $15 Trillion
Members of the Trump Administration and Congress have recently discussed the idea of waiving all taxes for those making less than $150,000 per year...
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Primer: Understanding the Tax Gap
Note: This is an update of our Tax Gap Primer using the latest available data from the IRS. One of the most fair and efficient ways for policymakers...
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New Estimates Confirm Economic Growth Won’t Pay for Tax Cuts
The latest estimates from third-party modelers confirm what we’ve said several times before: economic growth will not pay for tax cut extensions. New...
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Maya MacGuineas: The Drivers of our Debt and the Empty Rhetoric of Politics Today
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Ripon Forum , an excerpt...
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Taking a Closer Look at the House Budget’s Reconciliation Instructions
Note (2/19/2025): The below analysis was written before the committee marked up the resolution and added a requirement for an additional $500 billion...
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CBO's Revenue Savings Options
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its Options for Reducing the Deficit, outlining a number of options to reduce the deficit. We...
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$3 Trillion of Dynamic Feedback is Fantasy Math
According to a recent press report, the House may try to claim $3 trillion of deficit reduction as a result of “assumed economic growth from tax cuts”...
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Trump Tax Priorities Total $5 to $11 Trillion
In a closed-door meeting with House Leadership today President Trump reportedly outlined his tax priorities. According to press reports, they included...