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Is it Time to Enact Postal Reform?
Read moreA bipartisan proposal aimed at putting the postal service on better financial ground has been gaining traction in recent weeks. The United States...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling - Mar 2017
Read moreNote: We have updated this Q&A. A new version is available here. Attention is turning towards raising the federal debt ceiling, which will be...
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The Need to Lift the Debt Ceiling
Read moreTonight, the current suspension of the nation’s debt ceiling will end and the ceiling will be restored to current debt levels. According to...
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Update: The Cost of Rising Interest Rates
Read moreOver 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.
Read moreCongress 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
Read moreMoments 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
Read moreBudget 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
Read moreUpdate (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
Read moreEarlier 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?
Read moreUpdate (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?
Read moreThe 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
Read moreIn light of the House GOP releasing their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare"), the Joint Committee on Taxation...