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CBO Forecasts Costs of Climate Change
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released new estimates of the cost of climate change, specifically as it relates to hurricanes. The report...
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Four Takeaways from the Solutions Initiative Plans
Read moreThe Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative III produced five different fiscal plans that would improve the current long-term budget outlook. We...
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Op-Ed: Paving the Way for Sustainable Highway Financing
Read moreRealClearPolicy | May 21, 2015 Congress faces yet another deadline, and yet again is set to stall. This time, there literally could be a bumpy road...
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Discretionary Spending and the Sequester in the Final Budget Conference
Read moreThe budget resolution conference agreement has passed both the House and Senate. While we previously wrote about the conference's deficit reduction...
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164 Ways to Reduce the Deficit
Read moreCRFB has released a new compendium of over 150 options to reduce mandatory spending and raise revenue. Despite declining in deficits in recent years...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Read moreNote: We have updated this paper, please see the latest Appropriations 101. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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Sharpening the Axe: How the House and Senate Budgets Handle the Sequester
Read moreWith the Murray-Ryan deal expiring at the end of September, the sequester will once again be a hot topic as lawmakers will be prompted to deal with...
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Heritage Foundation Publishes Budget Book of Proposed Spending Cuts
Read moreLast week, the Heritage Foundation released the Budget Book, a catalog of 106 ways to cut the budget or reduce the size of government totaling roughly...