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Enzi-Whitehouse Budget Process Bill Includes Important Reforms
Read moreThe Senate Budget Committee recently marked up and reported bipartisan legislation to reform the budget process. The Bipartisan Congressional Budget...
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Watch: Opportunities for Lowering Health Care Costs
Read moreOn November 21, we hosted a major event on reducing health care costs for families, businesses, and the federal government. The event featured two...
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Factchecking and Live-Tweeting the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates
Read moreTonight's Democratic presidential primary debate marks the fifth round of debates of the 2020 campaign and will surely touch on fiscal issues. Through...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
Read moreThe fiscal year began on Oct. 1, 2019, and Congress has enacted none of 12 appropriations bills setting discretionary spending levels. Lawmakers have...
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2020 Federal Tax Brackets Are Here
Read moreThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released its tax year 2020 inflation adjustments for more than 60 federal tax provisions. To make these...
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Budget Deficit Increases 34% in October
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Department of Treasury today announced that the deficit in October was $134 billion – a 34 percent increase from October...
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Mike Murphy: While Congress Makes Budgeting Look Hard, Americans Show How to Do It
Read moreMike Murphy, the Chief of Staff and Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's FixUs initiative wrote an op-ed that is featured in...
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Washington Should Pursue Clean Appropriations Bills
Read moreFor Immediate Release Senior appropriators confirmed yesterday their plan to pass a second continuing resolution for fiscal year 2020, extending the...
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Bernie Sanders's Social Security Expansion Act
Read morePresidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed the Social Security Expansion Act, which would increase Social Security benefits...
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Letter to Senate Budget Committee: Advance Bipartisan Budget Improvements
Read moreBelow is a letter sent today from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas to Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi...
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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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Fair and Smart Budget Reforms Deserve Vote
Read moreFor Immediate Release Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) and committee member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) released bipartisan...