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Appropriations Watch: FY 2025
Read moreUpdated 12/20/24: The House passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through March 14, 2025, by a vote of 366 to 34. The measure will now...
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Reflections on the 2024 Ed Lorenzen Fiscal Internship
Read moreBy Olabisi Omoniyi-Alake The time that I have spent working at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has been a transformative...
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Maya MacGuineas: The Biggest Budget Deadline No One Has Heard Of
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Examiner , an...
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Deficit-Reducing Reconciliation Is Just What We Need
Read moreEarlier today, a group of 28 Members of Congress signed a letter to incoming Congressional leadership recommending a two-step reconciliation process...
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Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Read moreUpdated 12/18/2024: The President signed a Continuing Resolution on September 26, 2024, that runs through December 20, 2024. Lawmakers will need to...
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Budget Offsets Bank
Read moreWith the national debt on course to exceed its record as a share of the economy in the next two years, interest payments on the debt surging, and
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Kent Conrad: The Conrad Rule is the Answer to our Budget Reconciliation Woes
Read moreKent Conrad is a former senator, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and a director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He...
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Options to Raise Tariff Revenue
Read moreNote: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has published conventional estimates that a uniform increase in tariffs of 10 percent would reduce...
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Statement on the Passing of John Spratt
Read moreCongressman John Spratt, a former longtime Representative from South Carolina and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, died...
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Medicaid Savings Options
Read moreThe Medicaid program – a joint federal-state program that provides health care to low-income populations – is projected to cost the federal government...
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Senate Will Soon Vote on Speeding Up Social Security Insolvency
Read moreSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced yesterday that the Senate would vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, which passed the House...
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Typical Couple Will Lose $25,000 of Social Security from WEP/GPO Repeal
Read moreLawmakers are considering the repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Not only would...