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Let Zombie Tax Extenders Remain Dead
Read moreFor Immediate Release Last night, the House Rules Committee added a set of tax cuts to the year-end appropriations package, reviving almost three...
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Maya MacGuineas: Will the Federal Government's Nonstop Spending Binge Continue?
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Mike Murphy: Unlike Politicians in D.C., Some Are Willing to Work Together
Read moreMike Murphy is the Chief of Staff and Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's FixUs initiative. He recently wrote an op-ed for...
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Spending Package Could Add $500 Billion to Debt
Read moreUpdate 12/17/19: CBO and JCT have now estimated the year-end spending package after a late-night addition by the House Rules Committee. The bill now...
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Year-End Tax Cuts Would Add $470 Billion to the Debt
Read moreFor Immediate Release Press reports suggest lawmakers are negotiating a deal to combine year-end funding bills with a series of large tax cuts –...
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Erskine Bowles and Henry Paulson: How to Get Americans to Love Capitalism Again
Read moreErskine Bowles served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998 and is a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
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Maya MacGuineas: Utah Statesmen Seek to Fix Our Most Pressing Problems
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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OECD: U.S. Has the Highest Deficit
Read moreThe United States had the highest deficit in 2018 among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries according to the...
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Burchett, Case, and Womack Introduce RAFT Act
Read moreOne way to begin addressing our unsustainable fiscal situation is to set fiscal goals, which could come in the form of debt targets. A new bill...
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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Takes on Temporary Tax Breaks
Read moreThe Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote an opinion piece today decrying special interest tax subsidies that may be added to a year-end spending...
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Washington Must Avoid Budget-Busting Christmas Tree Legislation
Read moreFor Immediate Release Back from Thanksgiving recess, Congress now has less than three weeks to fund the government before the current continuing...
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Case and Womack Introduce Sustainable Budget Act
Read moreBuilding on bipartisan momentum for addressing our unsustainable fiscal situation, Representative Ed Case (D-HI) and House Budget Committee Ranking...