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

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Mar 11, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

What's in the House's Full-Year Continuing Resolution?

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Mar 13, 2025

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Other Spending

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

The House-adopted Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution calls for up to $2 trillion in spending cuts as partial offsets for $4.8 trillion of tax...

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Mar 12, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

Treasury: $1.1 Trillion Deficit in First Five Months of Fiscal Year 2025

The United States borrowed $1.1 trillion in the first five months of fiscal year 2025, including $307 billion in February, according to the latest...

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Mar 11, 2025

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Budget Process

CR Rightly Avoids Shutdown But Reflects Broken Budget Process

The House of Representatives will soon vote on a full-year continuing resolution (CR) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The bill would keep the government...

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Mar 11, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

What's in the House's Full-Year Continuing Resolution?

Update (3/13/2025): This piece has been updated to include an estimate of the Changes in Mandatory Programs (CHIMPs) without outlay savings, which...

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Mar 11, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

Putting the Reconciliation Resolution in Context

The House Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution would allow policymakers to add $2.8 trillion to primary deficits through 2034 via a reconciliation...

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Mar 11, 2025

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Other Spending

Appropriations Watch: FY 2025

Updated 3/11/25: On March 11, the House passed another continuing resolution to extend government funding through the end of the fiscal year. The...

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