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IRS Rescission Would Worsen Deficits
Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years...
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CRFB Budget Experts' Poll: 70% Chance of Shutdown
In our second round of unscientific polling of budget experts, they now place the chance of a government shutdown in October at 70 percent – up from...
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Congress Should Avoid Shutdown Without Further Debt Increases
There are just a few weeks left to avoid a government shutdown. Without either a continuing resolution or appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2024...
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Government Shutdowns Q&A: Everything You Should Know
This paper has been updated here. The new fiscal year (FY) begins on October 1, 2023, and Congress has so far enacted none of the 12 appropriations...
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Budget Experts’ Prediction of a Government Shutdown
We expect there will be an awful lot of talk about a government shutdown in the coming weeks and months, so we decided to create a highly unscientific...
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Donald Trump's Proposal to Use Impoundment Authority
In a video published to his campaign website on June 20, 2023, former President Donald Trump declared he would use “impoundment” authority to reduce...
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Build Your Own Child Tax Credit – A Web-Based Version
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) has become a topic of significant debate among policymakers as they wrestle with determining its appropriate size...
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Senate Appropriations Supplemental Could Add $155 Billion to the Debt
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) announced yesterday that they would introduce add supplemental...
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Rep. Grothman Introduces Bill to Enforce FY 2026-2029 Spending Caps
Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) recently introduced the Enforce the Caps Act in the House, along with nearly a dozen co-sponsors. The legislation...
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Appropriations 101
This paper has been updated here. What are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How does Congress allocate...
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House Appropriations Committee Publishes FY 2024 Community Project Funding Requests
In an effort to improve transparency around the appropriations process, the House Appropriations Committee recently centralized a list of Fiscal Year...
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Putting the Limit, Save, Grow Act in Context
The Limit, Save, Grow Act would reduce deficits by about $4.5 trillion over the next decade, with $3.2 trillion of those savings coming from caps to...