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House Offers a Serious Package of Savings
Read moreToday, House leadership put forward a framework to raise the debt limit while also reducing and capping the growth of discretionary spending...
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Rep. Golden Releases Fiscal Framework to Stabilize Debt
Read moreToday, Representative Jared Golden (D-ME) published a piece calling for lawmakers to raise the debt limit and then negotiate a responsible budget deal...
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Build Your Own Discretionary Budget
Read moreEach year, Congress must pass a new set of appropriations bills to fund the discretionary side of the budget and avoid a government shutdown. There...
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Goldwein Testimony Highlights $970 Billion in Student Loan Cancellation
Read moreCRFB’s Marc Goldwein testified to the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, on March 23, on the $970 billion recently...
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Marc Goldwein's House Testimony on Biden's Student Loan Policies
Read moreOn March 23, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein will testify before the House...
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Watch: Committee Senior Vice President Testifies to House Higher Education Subcommittee
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein testified before the House Subcommittee on...
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William Hoagland: It’s time for both parties to own the debt — and then address it
Read moreG. William Hoagland is senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He...
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New CBO Estimate Should Send IDR Plan Back to Drawing Board
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the President’s proposed income-driven repayment (IDR) plan for student loans will cost $230 billion...
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House Freedom Caucus Proposes up to $3.7 Trillion in Savings for Debt Ceiling Vote
Read moreThe House Freedom Caucus released today a proposal for the upcoming debt ceiling negotiations. Its members call for repealing the announced student...
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Comments on Proposed IDR Rule
Read moreOn February 9, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein submitted comments on the...
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New Study Finds Student Loan Pause is Regressive
Read moreA recent analysis by Diego Briones, Sarah Turner, and Eileen Powell of the University of Virginia found that the current student loan payment pause...
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Congress Must Responsibly Raise the Debt Limit
Read moreToday, the Treasury Department announced that it has begun engaging in a set of accounting tools known as “extraordinary measures” to avoid breaching...