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Maya MacGuineas: Federal Disaster Funding Doesn't Have To Be An Emergency
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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Hearing Recap: Fixing a Broken Budget and Spending Process – Perspectives of Two Former Chairmen
Read moreThe Senate Budget Committee began a series of hearings on reforming the budget process on May 15. The first hearing, “ Fixing a Broken Budget and...
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Gimmick Alert: Congress Considering Increasing Spending Through Harbor Maintenance Maneuver
Read moreHaving already used the war spending designation and fake mandatory savings to get around discretionary spending caps, lawmakers are turning to...
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Options to Offset An Infrastructure Package
Read moreA meeting between Democratic Congressional leaders and President Trump a few weeks ago raised the possibility of an infrastructure package. The...
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Kent Conrad's Testimony on the Broken Budget Process
Read moreOn May 14, 2019, former Senate Budget Committee Chairman and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board member Kent Conrad (D-ND) testified...
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Analysis of the 2019 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Medicare Trustees have released their 2019 report, which makes projections for Medicare spending and revenue for the next 75 years. The Trustees...
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Tim Penny & David Minge: Our Trillion-Dollar Problem Deserves Bipartisan Attention
Read moreTim Penny is co-chair and David Minge is a board member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Both are former representatives from the...
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WATCH: Conrad and Gregg Testify Before Senate Budget Committee
Read moreTwo former Senate Budget chairmen are testifying today before the Senate Budget Committee on the failures of the current budget process and the...
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Event Recap: Unpacking the 2019 Social Security Trustees' Report
Read moreOn April 26, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a lunch and panel discussion on "Unpacking the Social Security Trustees' Report."...
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IMF: U.S. Continues to Stand Out with Growing Debt
Read moreThe United States ranks number one among advanced economies in expected increase of debt as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) according to...
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CBO Finds Rising Debt in the President’s Budget
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of the President’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget Thursday showing the plan...
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CBO Releases Its Own Estimate of the President's FY 2020 Budget
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its estimate of the President's FY 2020 budget. CBO finds that debt in the budget would be on an...