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Letter to Congress to Abide By PAYGO
Read moreBelow is a letter from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas to all Members of Congress asking them to offset the costs...
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Watch: Unpacking the Social Security Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a lunch and panel discussion today on Unpacking the Social Security Trustees' Report. You can...
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GAO: "Federal Government Is on an Unsustainable Fiscal Path"
Read moreThe Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its long-term budget projections, and, like other forecasts, it projects that debt will...
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Why Should We Worry About the National Debt: Questions and Answers
Read more“Why Should We Worry About the National Debt?” describes six important ways that the growing national debt will affect the budget and the economy...
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Why Should We Worry About the National Debt?
Read moreThough the national debt is at a post-war high, the willingness of policymakers to address it seems as if it is at an all-time low. The last two years...
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Maya MacGuineas and Mike Murphy: Disastrous Record Deficits Threaten US Future
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Mike Murphy is director of the Committee's new initiative, FixUS...
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Last Year Was the Only Where Congress Did Not Vote On a Budget
Read moreLast year was a historically bad year for the Congressional budget process. Since 1976, it was the first time that neither the Senate or House voted...
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Tyler Evilsizer: Fiscal Negligence of Recent Congresses Must Be Dealt With Now
Read moreTyler Evilsizer is deputy policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for The Hill , an...
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Senate Budget Committee Sets the Stage for Responsible Budget Deal
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has released his Chairman's Mark for the FY 2020 budget resolution, covering the next five fiscal...
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Senate Budget Plan Includes Realistic Deficit Reduction
Read moreFor Immediate Release: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced today a Chairman’s Mark of the Fiscal Year 2020 budget resolution...
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The White House Projects the Debt Will Fix Itself
Read moreThe Trump Administration has touted its recent FY 2020 President’s Budget as balancing the budget in just 15 years. However, additional budget...
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Debt Would Rise, Not Fall, Under the President’s Budget
Read moreThe President’s budget estimates it would reduce debt to 71 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits to $202 billion (0.6 percent of GDP)...