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Omnibus Spends $110 Billion Above New Budget Caps
Read moreLast week's omnibus spending bill enacted a 13 percent increase in base appropriations, spending virtually all of the additional $143 billion allowed...
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Pro-Growth Infrastructure Needs Concrete Pay-Fors
Read morePolicymakers in Washington have turned their attention to infrastructure, with members of both parties putting forward their own competing proposals...
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William Hoagland: Congress Faces Challenging Times for American Fiscal Responsibility
Read moreG. William Hoagland is Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2018
Read moreCongress has completed action on omnibus appropriations legislation. The House and Senate passed the omnibus bill, and President Trump signed the...
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Rudolph Penner: Instead Of Seeking Budget Process Reforms, Congress Should Cut Spending And Raise Taxes
Read moreDr. Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...
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Spending Deal Sets Dangerous Precedent
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congressional leaders unveiled late Wednesday a bipartisan spending agreement to fund the government through the remainder of...
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Where Does the Higher Spending in the Omnibus Go?
Read morePolicymakers recently announced an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the government for the remaining six months of Fiscal Year 2018. The bill funds...
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Rising Rates Could Further Balloon Interest Spending
Read moreNote (5/15/2018): This blog was published before CBO's April 2018 baseline, which provides official estimates of the amount of interest that will be...
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Maya MacGuineas: America's Debt Crisis is Coming – Interest Payments Will Hit a Trillion Dollars a Year
Read moreMaya 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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Budget Process Reform Options
Read moreWith the appointment of the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform, focus is rightfully on how to fix our broken budget...
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Interest Spending Is On Course to Quadruple
Read moreThe fastest growing part of the federal budget is interest on the debt – payments made to service previous borrowing. While interest had already been...
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Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on Tax Extenders
Read moreOn March 14, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Ways and Means Tax Policy...