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Trump Budget Spending Increases Aren’t All Paid For
Read moreAlthough President’s Trump “ skinny budget” pays for most of its defense spending increases with cuts elsewhere, one-fifth of the spending increases...
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House Should Postpone Health Vote Until CBO Score
Read moreHouse leadership is reportedly considering making significant changes to the American Health Care Act (AHCA), including repeal of the essential health...
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What CBO Says About the Updated AHCA
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released their updated score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) with the inclusion of manager's...
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What We Know About the “Third Prong” of the Republicans’ Health Care Plan
Read moreUpdate (3/27/2017): After publication, CBO released a score for H.R. 1215 - the Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017. This blog has been updated to...
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AHCA Manager's Amendments Will Likely Cut Deficit Reduction in Half
Read moreThe House Rules Committee released two manager's amendments to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday evening in advance of their scheduled...
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Maya MacGuineas and Robert L. Bixby: Trump's "skinny budget" gets an incomplete
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and Robert L. Bixby, executive...
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AHCA Saves Money, But Could Make Getting to Balance Harder
Read moreHouse Republican leaders have introduced an ACA replacement bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
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Obamacare Replacement Could Save $2 Trillion Over Two Decades
Read moreUpdate (3/23/2017): 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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MacGuineas Explains the President's "Skinny Budget" and the Debt Ceiling on NBC and Fox
Read moreCRFB President Maya MacGuineas appeared on NBC and Fox News yesterday to discuss President Trump's new "skinny budget" and the debt limit. On Nightly...
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President Trump's FY 2018 "Skinny Budget"
Read moreThe Trump Administration today released its "skinny budget," which details its plans for defense and non-defense discretionary spending for Fiscal...
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Statement on Trump's Skinny Budget
Read morePresident Trump’s administration released its “skinny” budget today with a plan to release further details in the coming months. The skinny budget...
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House Health Care Bill Would Accelerate Medicare Insolvency to 2023
Read moreDespite the fact that the AHCA would reduce deficits, it would prove fiscally harmful in one area: Medicare solvency.