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Looming Debt Limit Debate Offers Opportunity for Meaningful Reform
Read moreThe debt limit was quietly reinstated on March 16. The budget deal in November 2015 suspended the debt limit through March 15, 2017, and reinstated...
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How High Will Debt Rise If Current Policy Continues?
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) 2017 Long-Term Budget Outlook shows today's high debt will nearly double as a share of Gross Domestic Product...
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Johnson and Larson Show Two Ways to Fix Social Security
Read moreYesterday, House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John Larson (D-CT) introduced a Social Security reform bill. About four...
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Fund the Government Before Shutdown – Without Gimmicks
Read moreThe government is currently being funded by a continuing resolution that expires on April 28, 2017. The following is a statement from Maya MacGuineas...
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Rudolph Penner: Washington’s New Definition Of Budget Success
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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TRUSTGO: To Fix the Debt, Start By Making Trust Funds Solvent
Read moreLast week, we showed that today's post-war era record-high debt is slated to double as a share of the economy over the next three decades, while four...
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CBO Releases 2017 Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreToday the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their latest Long-Term Budget Outlook, extending the agency's budget projections for the next 30...
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CBO’s 2017 Long-Term Budget Outlook
Read moreThe United States is on an unsustainable fiscal path, according to the Long-Term Budget Outlook released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
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Does AHCA Make Tax Reform Easier?
Read moreMuch of the news coverage on the interplay between health care and tax reform claims the failure to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA) makes tax...
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JCT Estimates Record $1.6 Trillion in Tax Breaks in 2017
Read moreThe Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released a new estimate earlier this year for the cost of tax expenditures over the years 2016-2020. In total...
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Dan Crippen: Why the CBO’s health bill numbers matter — even if they’re imperfect
Read moreDan Crippen served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1999 to 2003 and is currently a member of the board of the Committee for a...
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How Much Will the Essential Health Benefit Changes to AHCA Cost?
Read moreYesterday, we showed the manager's amendment to the American Health Care Act (Obamacare replacement) would reduce its total deficit reduction from...