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McCain Amendment Would Undermine Appropriations Discipline
Read moreWhen the Senate considers this year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) is...
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Zika Debate Provides An Opportunity to Discuss How Emergencies Are Funded
Read moreCurrently, 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?
Read moreDemocratic 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
Read moreMaya 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
Read moreOnce 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
Read moreUPDATED: 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
Read moren 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
Read moreOver 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThis 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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreNote: We have updated this paper, please see our Updated Appropriations 101. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...