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Congress Increasingly Fails to Budget
Read moreThe Congressional budget process calls for an annual budget resolution to make explicit the tradeoffs between discretionary spending, direct spending...
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Bill Advances to Combat Improper Payments
Read moreCongress recently passed a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) to improve efforts to identify and reduce improper payments across...
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Senator Sinema Introduces Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution
Read moreThis week, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), along with Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Angus King (I-ME), introduced a bipartisan...
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Support for TRUST Act Grows
Read moreThe 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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Policymakers Added $2.2 Trillion to the Debt in 2019
Read moreWith Congress finishing up appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, including additional provisions that will add $500 billion in debt over the next...
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Bipartisan Group Introduces TRUST Act
Read moreEarlier this week, Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Todd Young (R-IN), Doug Jones (D-AL), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), alongside...
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Statement on Bipartisan TRUST Act
Read moreSenators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ed Case (D-HI) introduced the TRUST Act on Tuesday...
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Policymakers Should Reject Efforts to Weaken SALT Cap
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Senate is voting this afternoon to reopen state workarounds on the limits on the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction by...
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Enzi's Proposals Would Improve the Budget Process
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has developed a series of draft budget process reforms. As we’ve explained before, the current...
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Representatives Rice, Barr Introduce Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution
Read moreLast week, Representatives Kathleen Rice (D-NY) and Andy Barr (R-KY) introduced a bipartisan bill to make it harder for Congress to ignore the...
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Senate Finance Prescription Drug Bill Would Reduce Deficits by $100 Billion
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee recently approved by a 19-9 vote a prescription drug bill, the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act, that the...
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Was a "No" Vote on the Budget Deal a Vote for "More Spending"?
Read moreIn support of the $1.7 trillion Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 (BBA19), Senator David Perdue (R-GA) gave a floor speech and penned an op-ed arguing...