Domestic Spending
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What We Hope to See in the President's FY 2022 Budget
Read moreThe White House is slated to release President Biden’s first full budget proposal this Friday. Although the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget request will...
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Eugene Steuerle: How Existing Budgetary Commitments Could Affect President Biden’s Domestic Policy Goals
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession laid bare many of the needs of working families and children, as well as federal, state, and local...
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Spending in the American Jobs Plan vs. the 2018 Senate Infrastructure Plan
Read moreLast month, President Joe Biden unveiled the second part of his "Build Back Better" agenda – the American Jobs Plan – focused on upgrading and...
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CRFB Launches Suite of Budget Games
Read moreToday the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched Budgeting for the Future, a suite of interactive games related to the federal budget and...
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New Poll Finds Americans Worry About the Debt and Want the Budget More Balanced Between Generations
Read moreA new Ipsos poll finds that a strong majority of Americans are concerned about the national debt and want federal spending to be more balanced between...
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What's in President Biden's American Families Plan?
Read moreThis evening, President Joe Biden will unveil the third part of his ambitious “Build Back Better” agenda, the American Families Plan. According to the...
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COVID Bills Had $650 Billion in Extraneous Policies
Read moreCongress has authorized around $6 trillion of fiscal support in response to the COVID pandemic, with a projected net cost of well over $5 trillion...
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What's in President Biden's American Jobs Plan?
Read moreOn Wednesday, President Joe Biden unveiled the second part of his "Build Back Better" agenda – the American Jobs Plan – focused on upgrading and...
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How High Are Federal Interest Payments?
Read moreThis year, the federal government will spend $300 billion on interest payments on the national debt. This is the equivalent of nearly 9 percent of all...
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Marc Goldwein: The Prescription: Fiscal Policy for the COVID-19 Economy
Read moreMarc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently appeared on The...
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Understanding the $1 Trillion in Unspent COVID Relief Funding
Read moreThe Senate-passed American Rescue Plan will deliver nearly $2 trillion of additional COVID relief on top of the $4 trillion already authorized. Yet...
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New Report Shows Troubling Outcomes for Short-Term-Education Programs
Read moreYesterday, New America published a new report by Monique O. Ositelu measuring employment outcomes of students who obtained short-term-education...