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WATCH: MacGuineas Testifies Before House Budget Committee
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified before the House Budget Committee on CBO Oversight on...
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Maya MacGuineas: Federal Budget Increasingly Tilted Against Investment in Children
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Event Recap: Better Budget Process Summit
On February 26, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted the first annual Better Budget Process Summit on “Rebuilding Confidence in...
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The President's Budget Proposes Smart Health Savings
Much of the health care discussion in President Trump's FY 2019 budget has focused on his $700 billion plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care...
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Updating the U.S. Budget Outlook
Note (4/30/2018): This paper was published before CBO's April 2018 baseline, which provides official estimates of the fiscal situation. For the...
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Budget Summit to Spur Action on Reform
For Immediate Release The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget convened the first annual “ Better Budget Process Summit” Monday in Washington...
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Playing By the (Budget) Rules: Understanding and Preventing Budget Gimmicks
The breakdown in the federal budget process and erosion of budget discipline have led to the increasingly pervasive reliance on budget gimmicks. While...
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WATCH: The Better Budget Process Summit
On February 26, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted the first annual Better Budget Process Summit. This year’s summit featured an...
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CRFB Statement on Joint Select Committee Members
For Immediate Release House leaders named several members Friday to the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform, a 16...
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Five Ways the Budget Process Has Failed
Today is the deadline for Congressional leaders to announce the Members of Congress serving on the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations...
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Does the President's Budget Slash Social Security and Medicare?
Several lawmakers have claimed that President Trump's latest budget would " slash," " gut," and " devastate" Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid...
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Debt Could Be 20 Percent of GDP Higher than President's Budget Claims
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) typically publishes its own estimate of the President's budget about a month after the budget's initial release...