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OBBBA’s 30-Year Price Tag
Read moreThe House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would add $3 trillion to the debt through Fiscal Year (FY) 2034 as written and $5 trillion if made...
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Maya MacGuineas: Trump’s Bill is Big, But Definitely Not Beautiful
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for U.S. News and World Report, an...
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How Much Would OBBBA Pay For Itself?
Read moreThe House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would add about $3 trillion to the debt, including interest, on a conventional basis. However...
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Leon Panetta and Bill Gradison Jr.: Bipartisanship Is Key to Fiscal Responsibility
Read moreLeon Panetta and Bill Gradison Jr. are former Members of Congress and a Co-Chair and a Director, respectively, of the Committee for a Responsible...
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Mike Murphy: What's your plan to save Social Security?
Read moreMike Murphy is senior vice president and chief of staff at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for NC...
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Senate HELP Committee Proposes $355 Billion in Offsets
Read moreYesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released its part of the Senate reconciliation package, which we...
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Keith Hall: Congress’ Scorekeeper Is Under Attack. It Deserves Our Trust.
Read moreKeith Hall is a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and former chief economist...
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Maya MacGuineas: National debt is a crisis. Congress must take it seriously
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News , an...
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12-Month Rolling Deficit is $2.0 Trillion in May 2025
Read moreThe federal government borrowed $2.0 trillion over the past year – June 2024 to May 2025 – based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office...
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Medicare Waste is Rightly Back on the Table
Read moreThe Senate is reportedly exploring options to reduce Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse as they consider changes to the House-passed One Big Beautiful...
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Maya MacGuineas on When Debt Becomes a Problem
Read moreCommittee President Maya MacGuineas recently took part in a explainer video by the Wall Street Journal, "When Does US Debt Become Genuinely Bad?"...
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Mortgage Costs Could Rise Under Debt-Financed Reconciliation Bill
Read moreA deficit-financed reconciliation bill could raise Americans’ mortgage costs by thousands of dollars per year by pushing up interest rates. The House...