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Maya MacGuineas: Tough budget choices for Congress, the president
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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All the President's Budget Gimmicks
The Trump Administration recently released its full Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget proposal, which details the President’s policies for federal spending...
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How the President's Budget Cuts Are Distributed
The President's budget includes sizeable cuts to federal spending to reduce deficits, but how are those cuts distributed? The budget shows that most...
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Judd Gregg: Throw the Hail Mary on Taxes
Tax reform is taking center stage. It is the gravamen of success for this Congress and president.
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Trump Budget Includes Meaningful SSDI Reforms
President Trump has been disappointingly reluctant to propose any changes to improve the solvency of Social Security's retirement program, but his...
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Resources for Infrastructure Week
The White House has dubbed this week "infrastructure week" to talk about the infrastructure proposals in the President's recent budget, including an...
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Maya MacGuineas: Why is Trump's 3-percent growth target pure folly? Because math.
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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Marc Goldwein: President Trump’s Budget Defies Gravity
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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Maya MacGuineas: The CBO Report Was a Healthy Dose of Reality on Repealing Obamacare
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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CBO's Estimate of the House-Passed AHCA
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released their updated score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as passed by the House of...
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CRFB Applauds Administration Call To Fully Offset Tax Reform
For Immediate Release Yesterday, the Trump Administration released its first full budget (summarized here). Among other policies, the budget called...
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President Trump’s Full FY 2018 Budget
The President released the full version of his first budget yesterday, laying out his proposals for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 and the following decade...