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Heritage Foundation Releases 2022 Budget Blueprint
The Heritage Foundation recently released their 2022 Budget Blueprint, a list of over 200 specific policy proposals that would “roll back excessive...
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UPDATE: Build Back Better Visualized
UPDATE 12/10: Since this analysis was published, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has issued a correction to their initial estimate of H.R. 5376...
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Build Back Better Visualized
Last 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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BBB Expirations Could Hide $1 to $2 Trillion of True Costs
As 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
Policymakers 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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Health Savings Can Help Pay for Reconciliation
Policymakers are continuing to negotiate the "Build Back Better Act" reconciliation package and the overall size and scope of both the tax and...
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Limiting the Cost of Medicare Expansion
As Congress negotiates proposals for Medicare benefit expansions, it should consider ways to limit their costs by either dropping the expansions...
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Better Targeting in Reconciliation
As lawmakers negotiate the details of their reconciliation package, they will need to scale back some of their ambitions to prevent arbitrary policy...
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Event Recap: What's Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds?
On September 1, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted “What’s Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.” The event...
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Analysis of the 2021 Medicare Trustees' Report
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the long-term financial state of those programs. The reports are the first...
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Trustees: Social Security & Medicare Approaching Insolvency
The Social Security (our analysis here) and Medicare (our analysis here) Trustees just released their annual reports for 2021 on the financial status...
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Representative Suozzi Introduces the WISH Act
Representative Thomas Suozzi (D-NY) recently introduced the WISH Act, which aims to provide catastrophic long-term care insurance for older Americans...