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Lawmakers Release Emergency Funding Request on Coronavirus
Appropriators released today their $8.3 billion emergency funding bill to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak, $5.8 billion more than the $2.5 billion...
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How Will Candidate Plans Affect Total Health Costs?
We recently updated our estimates of the budgetary impacts of health care reform plans put forward by 2020 presidential candidates Joe Biden, Bernie...
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New Infographics on 2020 Candidates' Health Plans
We have updated these infographics – originally published on February 7 – to reflect a new set of proposals released on February 24 by Senator Sanders...
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Primary Care: Estimating Democratic Candidates’ Health Plans
Senator Bernie Sanders released a new set of proposals to offset the cost of his health care plan this week. Based on these new proposals, we have...
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The President's Budget Saves Medicare $600 Billion While Reducing Out-of-Pocket Costs
Last year, numerous politicians and outlets repeated the false and misleading claim that the President’s FY 2020 budget cut Medicare benefits by $845...
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GAO: Fiscal Sustainability Is a Growing Concern for Some Key Federal Trust Funds
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the financial health of the nation’s federal trust funds. Requested by...
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Support for TRUST Act Grows
The Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act, or the TRUST Act, was introduced last fall on a bipartisan basis in both chambers of Congress to...
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Budget Deal Shows Bipartisan Failure of Leadership
For Immediate Release Later today, President Trump is expected to sign into law a $1.4 trillion spending package, appropriated through two bipartisan...
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Appropriations Deal Will Cost $2.1 Trillion Over 20 Years
The appropriations deal's numerous deficit-increasing policies, most notably its permanent repeal of three Affordable Care Act (ACA) taxes, would cost...
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Spending Package Could Add $500 Billion to Debt
Update 12/17/19: CBO and JCT have now estimated the year-end spending package after a late-night addition by the House Rules Committee. The bill now...
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Maya MacGuineas: Utah Statesmen Seek to Fix Our Most Pressing Problems
Maya 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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Watch: Opportunities for Lowering Health Care Costs
On November 21, we hosted a major event on reducing health care costs for families, businesses, and the federal government. The event featured two...