2016 Campaign
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Governing through Leadership: Steps to Secure Our Fiscal Future
Read moreA Memorandum to President-Elect Donald J. Trump TO: President-Elect Donald J. Trump FROM: Governor Mitch Daniels, Secretary Leon Panetta, Congressman...
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Trump Will Face Highest Debt-to-GDP Ratio of Any New President Since Truman
Read moreWhen President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office on January 20, 2017, debt as a share of the economy will be higher than at the start of any...
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What We Know About President-Elect Trump's Agenda
Read moreDonald Trump has won the 2016 presidential election, but what will President-elect Trump's policy agenda be? Throughout the 2016 campaign, we examined...
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A Lame Duck President in 2017?
Read moreby C. Eugene Steuerle, Maya MacGuineas, Tyler Evilsizer, and Caleb Quakenbush This report represents a joint project of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy...
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Interactive Tool: Reforming the Candidates' Fiscal Plans
Read moreOur recent in-depth analysis Promises and Price Tags found that the national debt would continue to rise under a Hillary Clinton or a Donald Trump...
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Marc Goldwein: These 5 Supposed Fixes for Social Security Won’t Solve Its Problems
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an op-ed...
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Looking at the Long Term Under the Candidates' Plans
Read moreWe’ve shown before that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump would reverse the unsustainable growth of the national debt over the next decade, and...
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How Clinton and Trump Could Affect Economic Growth
Read moreRecently, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) estimated the economic impact of Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's tax plans, finding that both plans would...
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Maya MacGuineas: Neither Candidate Has Any Real Plan for Our National Debt
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Paul A. Volcker & Peter G. Peterson: Ignoring the Debt Problem
Read morePeter G. Peterson is the founder and chairman of the Pete G. Peterson Foundation and a board member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
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Five Easy Fixes that Won't Save Social Security
Read moreTonight’s Presidential debate will include a discussion of debt and entitlements, which hopefully touches on the looming insolvency of the government...
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Let's Have a Real Debate
Read moreCross-posted on the Fix the Debt blog The first two presidential debates offered a lot of drama but little substance. So the final debate tonight is...