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What’s in the Senate’s Concurrent FY 2025 Budget?
The Senate Budget Committee unveiled its proposed concurrent Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution yesterday, setting the stage for reconciliation...
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The House’s $2 Trillion in Spending Cuts Should Be an Absolute Minimum
The reconciliation instructions in the House’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution – which allow up to $2.8 trillion of net borrowing through 2034...
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Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Updated 3/28/2025: The President signed a continuing resolution (H.R. 1968) on March 15, 2025, that runs through September 30, 2025. Our analysis of...
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A $2 Trillion Cut Compared to $86 Trillion in Spending
The House-adopted Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution calls for up to $2 trillion in spending cuts as partial offsets for $4.8 trillion of tax...
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House Spending Cuts Would Not Be Largest in History
The House recently adopted its Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution, which includes reconciliation instructions allowing a net $2.8 trillion of...
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Chartbook: Reconciliation 101
On February 25, Marc Goldwein, senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, gave a presentation...
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House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases
The House of Representatives will soon consider a budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, which was reported favorably out of the House Budget...
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Taking a Closer Look at the House Budget’s Reconciliation Instructions
Note (2/19/2025): The below analysis was written before the committee marked up the resolution and added a requirement for an additional $500 billion...
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Case and Womack Renew Efforts with the Sustainable Budget Act
Representatives Ed Case (D-HI) and Steve Womack (R-AR) recently reintroduced the Sustainable Budget Act (H.R. 222), which would establish an 18-member...
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Congress Should Avoid a Costly End-of-Year Package
With debt nearing record levels, interest payments surging, and major trust funds approaching insolvency, Congress should avoid worsening our already...
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Reconciliation 101
What is Reconciliation? How do Reconciliation Instructions Work? Can a Reconciliation Bill Add to the Deficit? What is the “Byrd Rule”? What are Other...
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Lower Costs, More Transparency Act Passes House
The House of Representatives passed the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act yesterday with a large bipartisan majority. Within the legislation is an...