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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and West Health Launch Health Savers Initiative
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the West Health Policy Center have launched the Health Savers Initiative, a...
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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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Marc Goldwein & Tyler Evilsizer: Moving from a debt-busting tax cut to pro-growth tax reform
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Tyler Evilsizer is the deputy...
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Statement on Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund
Read moreFor Immediate Release The House of Representatives is voting Monday on H.R. 2440, the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act. The...
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Co-Chairs Daniels, Panetta, & Penny Statement on FY 2019 Deficit
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Treasury Department released Friday the final deficit total for Fiscal Year 2019, which ended on September 30. Figures show...
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Treasury: 2019 Deficit was $984 Billion
Read moreThe Treasury Department released final budget numbers for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 today, showing last year's deficit totaled $984 billion, a $205...
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Could Medicare for All be Financed Entirely by Cutting Defense Spending?
Read moreLast week, The New York Times published an op-ed entitled “We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare for All’ .” In it, Lindsay Koshgarian...
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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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The Prevent Government Shutdowns Act Will Not Cost $12.6 Trillion
Read moreThe Prevent Government Shutdowns Act (PGSA) would establish an automatic continuing resolution (auto-CR) to prevent shutdowns and would put into place...
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Why Are CBO and SSA so Far Apart on SS2100?
Read moreBoth the Social Security Administration's (SSA) chief actuary, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released updated estimates of the...
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Maya MacGuineas: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Made the Debt Worse and Makes Fixing It Even Harder
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 a blog...
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Would Medicare for All Require a Middle-Class Tax Hike?
Read moreWith several 2020 presidential candidates endorsing a move to single-payer health care ( Medicare for All), there is an ongoing debate over whether...