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Shutdown is a National Embarrassment
For Immediate Release Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said the following about the government shutdown...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
This paper has been updated here. As we’ve learned to expect, Congress seems to be waiting until the last minute to address several important fiscal...
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Sequester Relief is Too Costly to Add to the Credit Card
During the busy end to the year, lawmakers enacted a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded through January 19. When that CR ends...
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Budgeting for the Next Generation: A New Series on Children and the Federal Budget
The federal budget is arguably the most comprehensive representation of the federal government’s priorities. Policymakers use the budget to determine...
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Discretionary Cap Deal Could Cost Over $100 Billion Per Year
Lawmakers are reportedly considering a year-end deal to repeal the sequester and increase discretionary spending potentially as much as $230 billion...
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Policymakers Should Reform Student Loan Programs
Lawmakers will need offsets to keep year-end legislation from substantially worsening the debt, and one area we've suggested in our Mini-Bargain and...
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A Mini-Bargain to Improve the Budget: An Update
Note: This paper is an update from our August 2017 piece “ A Mini-Bargain to Improve the Budget .” It adds a new section on how to pay for disaster...
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Senator Flake Releases "Wastebook: PORKémon Go" to Catch Federal Waste
Hoping to “catch egregious spending lurking in federal budgets,” Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) released Wastebook: PORKémon Go yesterday, highlighting 50...
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CBO Releases 2016 Budget Options
The Congressional Budget Office released a report Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2017 to 2026, with 115 budget options that either increase...
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Governing through Leadership: Steps to Secure Our Fiscal Future
A Memorandum to President-Elect Donald J. Trump TO: President-Elect Donald J. Trump FROM: Governor Mitch Daniels, Secretary Leon Panetta, Congressman...
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Senator James Lankford Releases Second Federal Fumbles Report
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) today released his second annual report on the federal government’s wasteful spending, Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways the...
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A Lame Duck President in 2017?
by C. Eugene Steuerle, Maya MacGuineas, Tyler Evilsizer, and Caleb Quakenbush This report represents a joint project of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy...