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Zika Debate Provides An Opportunity to Discuss How Emergencies Are Funded
Currently, Congress is debating if and how to provide emergency funding to fight the Zika virus. While the President has requested $1.9 billion in...
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How Much Do Donald Trump's Tax Cuts for Millionaires Cost?
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently released a fact sheet on her campaign website that criticizes Republican presidential...
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Maya MacGuineas: Donald’s dangerous debt-deficit delusion
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that appeared in...
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A Nation Without a Budget: Statement by Maya MacGuineas
Once again, we are a nation without a budget. Congress has blown past its own deadline for passing a budget and is now working on appropriations bills...
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Adding Up Senator Sanders's Campaign Proposals So Far
UPDATED: Previous versions of this analysis were published on April 7 and May 9, 2016. The analysis below, updated on May 19, incorporates the...
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Alice Rivlin, Queen of Washington's Budget Wonks
n the interview, Alice Rivlin discusses why she became an economist, her early years in Washington, her time directing the Congressional Budget Office...
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Gene Steuerle: Opportunity for All Isn’t Gonna Happen on This Path
Over the past 30 or 35 years, income and government spending per household have both about doubled, but working- and middle-class Americans have seen...
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Christmas for the Pentagon Is Early This Year: Statement by Maya MacGuineas
The defense authorization bill reported by the House Armed Services Committee would funnel $23 billion of war funds to the Pentagon for basic expenses...
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House and Senate Move Forward on Appropriations
This year's deadline has already passed without a budget resolution coming from either chamber, but the appropriations season is still moving forward...
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IRS Loses $400 Billion Per Year in Unpaid Taxes
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released new estimates of the “tax gap” – the amount of taxes owed that go uncollected. They reveal that...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Note: We have updated this paper, please see our Updated Appropriations 101. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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David Perdue & Maya MacGuineas: Repairing the budget process
Senator David Perdue, the junior senator from Georgia, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a...