Congressional Budgets
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Budget Will Be Difficult to Balance Without ACA Savings
For the past three years, Republicans have proposed budgets with a goal of achieving balance within the next decade. However, that goal will be much...
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Congressional Progressive Caucus Releases Alternative to House Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) released their “ People’s Budget,” an alternative to the House budget released last week. The budget offers...
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Republican Study Committee Publishes Alternative FY 2017 Budget
The Republican Study Committee (RSC) has released an alternative to the House Republican budget that outlines their vision for the country’s fiscal...
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House Budget Confirms It Takes $8 Trillion to Balance the Budget
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution that advanced out of the House Budget Committee last week keeps up the recent tradition of targeting...
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House Budget Attempts to Set in Motion Savings and Process Reforms
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution released yesterday contains ambitious promises of deficit reduction to balance the budget within ten...
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House Budget Would Expand War Spending Gimmick
The Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) designation has often been used to circumvent spending limits, and the budget resolution released by House...
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Chairman Price Rolls out the FY 2017 House Budget
House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) today released the FY 2017 House budget resolution to formally kick off the Congressional budget...
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Congress Can Pass Bills to Reduce the Deficit This Year
House Members appear to be resolving a disagreement over what this year’s discretionary spending cap should be. Some House Republicans have been...
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Peuquet Highlights Importance of Budget Debates
As we face an end-of-the-year legislative crunch that promises to be fiscally irresponsible, former Research Director of the Committee for a...
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The Tricks and Treats in the Budget Deal
With the Senate passing the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 in the wee hours of the morning the bill now heads to the President's desk for signature...