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Promises and Price Tags: An Update
Read moreUpdate: On November 2, 2016, we added an appendix to this update that summarizes the policies that the candidates have released. The next president...
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Getting Real About Paying For Trump's Tax Plan
Read moreRepublican Presidential candidate Donald Trump announced significant revisions to his tax plan that would reduce its cost by about half, a change CRFB...
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Explaining Donald Trump's Penny Plan for Non-Defense Spending
Read moreMuch of the attention in Thursday's remarks by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has focused on his revised tax plan, but another new...
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How Much Would Trump's New Defense Plan Cost?
Read moreRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump introduced a proposal today to increase defense spending and rebuild the military. Specifically, his...
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Maya MacGuineas: The first step towards solving the debt crisis: Stop digging
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that...
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CRFB Responds to Donald Trump’s New Tax Plan
Read moreIn a speech today at the Detroit Economic Club, presidential candidate Donald Trump announced revisions to his tax reform plan, suggesting that...
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Analyzing Clinton's Health and Education Expansions
Read moreDemocratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently unveiled expansions of her proposals for higher education and...
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How Much Would Clinton and Trump Increase Our $19 Trillion Gross Debt?
Read moreOur report Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election estimates that debt held by the public would rise from about $14 trillion...
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Has President Obama Doubled the National Debt?
Read moreWhile accepting the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump said, "President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19...
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Is the U.S. the Highest Taxed Nation in the World?
Read moreAs he accepted the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump stated that “America is one of the highest-taxed countries in the world,” while...
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What Donald Trump Can Do to Improve His Tax and Spending Policies
Read moreIn a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, Donald Trump’s economic advisers Andy Puzder and Stephen Moore stated that the campaign will release changes...
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Scoring Clinton and Trump with Different Growth Assumptions
Read moreIn our analysis "Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election," we compared the fiscal effects of the policies proposed by presumptive...