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Fact Sheet: How much waste, fraud, and abuse is there in Social Security?
• The Social Security Trustees estimate that reducing benefits to restore solvency would require an immediate 16.4 percent benefit cut – the...
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ARCHIVE: Analysis of Donald Trump's Health Care Plan
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently released a health care reform plan entitled “Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again.”...
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Two Committees Roll Out Mandatory Savings Package
Last week, two House Committees, Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce, released a package of bills that would reduce mandatory spending. The bills...
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Rep. Tom McClintock Proposes Changes to Improve Budget Enforcement
As House Republicans continue to discuss the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) has recommended budget process...
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Ted Cruz's Tax Plan is a VAT
Senator Ted Cruz has repeatedly denied the claim that his 16 percent business flat tax as actually a value-added tax (VAT). Although there is...
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Event: Scoring the 2016 Presidential Tax Plans
Update: The event is now over, and a recording of the video will be available soon. As a part of our Fiscal FactCheck project, CRFB is hosting an...
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Marc Goldwein: Candidates' Numbers Must Add Up
Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a guest post that...
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Medicare to Test New Payment Models for Outpatient Drugs
Progress on policies to slow the growth of health care spending is expected to be slow in an election year, but this week, the Center for Medicare and...
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Four Fiscal FactChecks from the Past Month
As the 2016 Presidential primary season rolls on, CRFB continues to fact check the candidates on budget-related statements made during the campaign on...
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Could Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices Save $300 Billion Per Year?
Over the course of the Presidential campaign, Republican campaign Donald Trump has repeatedly called for having Medicare directly negotiate drug...
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Congress Can Pass Bills to Reduce the Deficit This Year
House Members appear to be resolving a disagreement over what this year’s discretionary spending cap should be. Some House Republicans have been...