Budgets & Projections
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Washington Must Avoid Budget-Busting Christmas Tree Legislation
For Immediate Release Back from Thanksgiving recess, Congress now has less than three weeks to fund the government before the current continuing...
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Case and Womack Introduce Sustainable Budget Act
Building on bipartisan momentum for addressing our unsustainable fiscal situation, Representative Ed Case (D-HI) and House Budget Committee Ranking...
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Budget Deficit Increases 34% in October
For Immediate Release The Department of Treasury today announced that the deficit in October was $134 billion – a 34 percent increase from October...
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Mike Murphy: While Congress Makes Budgeting Look Hard, Americans Show How to Do It
Mike Murphy, the Chief of Staff and Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's FixUs initiative wrote an op-ed that is featured in...
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Washington Should Pursue Clean Appropriations Bills
For Immediate Release Senior appropriators confirmed yesterday their plan to pass a second continuing resolution for fiscal year 2020, extending the...
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Statement on Bipartisan TRUST Act
Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ed Case (D-HI) introduced the TRUST Act on Tuesday...
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Co-Chairs Daniels, Panetta, & Penny Statement on FY 2019 Deficit
For Immediate Release The Treasury Department released Friday the final deficit total for Fiscal Year 2019, which ended on September 30. Figures show...
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Treasury: 2019 Deficit was $984 Billion
The Treasury Department released final budget numbers for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 today, showing last year's deficit totaled $984 billion, a $205...
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Will Thanksgiving Appropriations Be Stuffed with Debt?
Having just enacted a continuing resolution last week to extend current government funding through November 21, policymakers must now work toward the...
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Eugene Steuerle: Multi-Trillion Dollar Fiscal and Monetary Gambles
Under pressure from President Trump and worried about a worldwide economic slowdown, the Federal Reserve recently cut short-term interest rates.
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Marjorie Margolies: When will the 2020 presidential candidates be asked about America’s debt?
Marjorie Margolies is president of Women’s Campaign International and a member of the board of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She...
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Americans Show They Can Make Tough Federal Budget Decisions and Reduce National Debt
The national debt currently is the highest it has been as a share of the economy since just after World War II, and it is rising rapidly. This high...