PAYGO & CUTGO
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Congress Should Avoid a Costly End-of-Year Package
Read moreWith debt nearing record levels, interest payments surging, and major trust funds approaching insolvency, Congress should avoid worsening our already...
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Addressing the Statutory PAYGO Scorecard
Read moreThere is currently a massive $1.7 trillion balance on the statutory PAYGO scorecard for 2025. Under current law, this balance is slated to trigger a...
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Congress Should Strengthen Administrative PAYGO
Read moreThe Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023 re-established Administrative PAYGO (Pay-As-You-Go) – a rule requiring the executive branch to offset...
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Rules Reform – Ideas for the 118th Congress
Read moreAt the beginning of each new session of Congress, the House of Representatives must agree on a new set of rules governing how business will be...
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December Sequester Suspension Misses the Mark
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congress is considering legislation that will cancel the PAYGO sequester for 2022, extend temporary COVID-era Medicare payment...
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Five Reasons to Pay for New Investments
Read moreCongress and the Administration are currently negotiating and developing legislation to invest in physical infrastructure, education, and other areas...
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Strengthen PAYGO with House Rules Reforms
Read moreWhen the 117 th Congress begins in January, lawmakers in the House of Representatives can advance fiscal responsibility and better budgeting practices...
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PAYGO Tracker: FY 2020
Read moreThe first rule of getting out of a hole is to stop digging it deeper. With deficits and debt set to reach unprecedented levels soon, lawmakers risk...
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President Trump Bolsters Administrative PAYGO Through Executive Order
Read moreLast week, President Trump signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to identify and propose offsets whenever they propose an action that...
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New House Members Stress Importance of PAYGO
Read moreA group of ten new Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to House committee chairs on Wednesday urging them to better...
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Letter to Congress to Abide By PAYGO
Read moreBelow is a letter from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas to all Members of Congress asking them to offset the costs...
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Budget Changes in Proposed House Rules
Read moreHouse Democrats are proposing a package of rules to govern the House of Representatives in the 116th Congress. The package contains many changes from...