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House Build Back Better Bills Are Built on Shaky Foundation
Read moreFor Immediate Release The House is slated to vote today on two parts of the President’s Build Back Better agenda – the bipartisan infrastructure bill...
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An Update on Build Back Better Offsets
Read moreWe have published an full estimate of the House's Build Back Better Act based on CBO's scores of the bill here. Last week, the White House estimated...
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Build Back Better Visualized
Read moreLast week, the White House released a $1.75 trillion framework for the reconciliation bill currently working its way through Congress. When combined...
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No Score, No Vote
Read moreFor Immediate Release The House apparently intends to vote on the latest version of the Build Back Better Act as soon as this week, despite that fact...
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New Build Back Better Framework Relies Too Heavily on Gimmicks
Read moreFor Immediate Release Today, the White House released an updated framework for its Build Back Better plan. The framework proposes $1.85 trillion of...
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Maya MacGuineas: Reconciliation can work if Congress sets priorities and cuts the games
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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BBB Expirations Could Hide $1 to $2 Trillion of True Costs
Read moreAs negotiations over President Biden’s Build Back Better reconciliation package continue, lawmakers are reportedly considering an extension of the...
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Chartbook: Build Back Better for Less
Read morePolicymakers are apparently now targeting $1.5 trillion to $2.3 trillion of gross spending increases and tax cuts for their Build Back Better...
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FY 2022 Reconciliation Tracker
Read moreLast Updated: 12/20/2021 Budget reconciliation is underway ( read more about the full process here), with House and Senate lawmakers crafting a...
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Limiting the Cost of Medicare Expansion
Read moreAs Congress negotiates proposals for Medicare benefit expansions, it should consider ways to limit their costs by either dropping the expansions...
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Reconciliation Unlikely to Produce $600 Billion in Dynamic Revenue
Read morePolicymakers are claiming their $3.5 trillion reconciliation package will be fully paid for by counting on $600 billion of dynamic feedback on top of...
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Five Ways to Improve the FY 2022 Reconciliation Package
Read moreCongress is attempting to enact a large and ambitious agenda of new programs through the reconciliation process. While President Biden has made the...