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Update: The Cost of Rising Interest Rates
Over the next decade, interest payments on the debt are projected to be the fastest growing part of the federal budget. Last year, the federal...
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Alice Rivlin: Don’t undermine the Congressional Budget Office. Use it.
Congress faces a daunting legislative agenda: Health care is “complicated,” as President Trump recently discovered. So are tax reform and spending...
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Statement on CBO Score of Health Legislation
Moments ago, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its initial score and analysis of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) – the House plan to...
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Setting the Benchmark: Reforms to Budget Baseline Rules
Budget baselines are among the most important – but widely misunderstood – elements of budgeting and policymaking. The budgetary impact of a given...
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What CBO Says About the House Obamacare Replacement
Update (3/21/2017): These numbers are relevant for the original version of the American Health Care Act. An amended version was released on March 20...
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House ACA Replacement Would Accelerate Medicare Insolvency
Earlier this year, we released three principles for responsible "Obamacare" Repeal and Replace. I
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What's in the GOP Obamacare Replacement Bill?
Update (3/21/2017): This description is relevant for the original version of the American Health Care Act. An amended version was released on March 20...
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How Much Does the House GOP Tax Plan Cost?
The tax reform conversation so far has mostly focused on House Republicans' "Better Way" Blueprint released last summer (we explain the plan in detail...
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JCT: ACA Repeal Will Cut Taxes by At Least $600 Billion
In light of the House GOP releasing their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare"), the Joint Committee on Taxation...
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CRFB Co-Chair Leon Panetta Tells Face the Nation We Must “Put Everything on the Table”
CRFB Co-Chair Leon Panetta was on Face the Nation on CBS this Sunday. Among a variety of topics, the former Secretary of Defense, Director of the...
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Cutting the Smallest and Slowest Growing Part of the Budget
President Trump's March budget release will reportedly increase defense spending next year by $54 billion and cut non-defense spending by the same...
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Gene Steuerle: Before We Reform Tax Policy, We Need to Know What Is Working
Congress and President Trump are embarking on what is likely to be a major rewrite of the federal income tax code.