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Committee President Maya MacGuineas Testifies on Need for Improved Oversight, Accountability of COVID-19 Relief Funds
Read moreFor Immediate Release Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas will testify today, June 3, before a newly established...
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Maya MacGuineas Testifies at COVID-19 Fiscal Oversight Hearing
Read moreTo ensure oversight of the trillions of dollars in economic relief authorized to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn, the...
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Webinar & Chartbook: What's the Status of COVID Relief Money?
Read moreOn March 27, 2020, the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act into law, the most sweeping economic recovery...
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Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on Pandemic Response Oversight
Read moreOn June 3, 2020, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee...
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An Update on the Paycheck Protection Program
Read moreThe Paycheck Protection Program is one of the larger and most well-known initiatives that has been created to support small businesses during the...
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CBO Releases Options to Shore Up Highway Trust Fund
Read moreSeveral of the country’s most important trust funds are rapidly headed toward insolvency and will run out of reserves sooner than projected due to the...
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Charlie Stenholm: We will have to face rising national debt
Read moreCharlie Stenholm is a senior policy advisor at Olsson Frank Weeda, P.C., and a member of the Committee for a Resonsible Federal Budget. He recently...
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Eugene Steuerle: This is not your grandfather's debt problem
Read moreNow that the covid-19 crisis has produced predictions that we soon will reach a debt-to-GDP ratio previously seen only once before — during World War...
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What's in the $3 Trillion HEROES Act?
Read moreUpdated on 6/3/2020 to reflect CBO's estimate of the HEROES Act. The House recently approved the HEROES Act designed to further address the public...
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Tim Penny: Pandemic-related federal aid: Make it fast, but also make it prudent
Read moreTim Penny is president & CEO of the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation and co-chair of the Committee for a Responsible Budget. He recently wrote...
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Fed Mortgage-Backed Security Purchases Reached a New Record
Read moreThe Federal Reserve purchased nearly $180 billion in Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) last week, more than any week in history — including during the...
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COVID Response: How Much Money Has Been Made Available So Far?
Read moreThe fiscal and monetary policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis has been both swift and substantial. We have been...