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Budget Deal Would Assure Permanent Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Note (2/9/2018): We have published an update to this blog reflecting passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. It is posted here . Lawmakers...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
This paper has been updated here. As we’ve learned to expect, Congress seems to be waiting until the last minute to address several important fiscal...
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MacGuineas Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
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Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on Continuing Resolutions, Omnibuses, and Shutdowns
On February 6, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the Senate Homeland Security and...
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Post-State of the Union Fact Check Roundup
The President's first State of the Union address included several claims related to the recently passed tax legislation, including a few repeat claims...
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Debt-O is Back for the State of the Union Address!
President Donald Trump will give his first State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. ET. CRFB will be live tweeting the speech, providing analysis...
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President Trump Fails to Address Growing National Debt in State of the Union Speech
For Immediate Release President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday. Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee...
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IMF: Tax Bill's Boost to Growth is Short-Term
This week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a new estimate of economic growth, revising their short-term estimate upwards because of the...
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Maya MacGuineas: Wake Up: The Current Fiscal Free-for-All is Untenable
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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Trillion-Dollar Deficits Could Return Next Year, But A Deal Could Make Them Worse
Trillion-dollar deficits will return next year, and a budget deal in the coming weeks could make them much worse. The continuing resolution (CR) that...
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$30 Billion in Debt is a High Price to Reopen the Government
For Immediate Release The House and Senate have passed a short-term continuing resolution extending discretionary funding through February 8. The...
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Three-Week Funding Deal Includes $30 Billion in Tax Cuts
Lawmakers came to a bipartisan agreement to end the federal government shutdown yesterday, but it came with a very high price. The continuing...