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The Urban Institute's $600 Billion Medicare Reform Package
The Urban Institute's Robert Berenson, John Holahan, and Stephen Zuckerman recently released a very useful paper entitled " Can Medicare Be Preserved...
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How Much Might the Ryan Budget Have to Change to Reach Balance?
With the new expectation that the House budget resolution will reach balance in 10 years -- more than 15 years earlier than was projected last year --...
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Line Items: Snowquester Edition
After the Storm – Winter Storm Saturn moved through the Washington, DC area on Wednesday and was given the nickname "Snowquester" by the inside-the...
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Messy Appropriations Process Goes Forward
Update: The Senate Appropriations Committee has released its companion CR/appropriations bill package with total funding at the same level as the...
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Revisiting the Distribution of Tax Expenditures
Tax expenditures are a frequent subject of this blog, as they are less visible than government spending due to the tax code's great complexity. But...
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CBO Updates Estimate of 112th Congress Farm Bills
The last Congress attempted to work out a new farm bill but could never reach an agreement. The American Taxpayer Relief Act, the agreement reached...
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The Latest Official Sequester Numbers
On Friday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its latest detailed report of how the cuts in sequestration will be allocated. The...
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The OECD and Robert Solow on the Effects of Debt
As our national debt and deficit continue to rise, a question that continues to be on many people’s minds is how rising debt levels impact the economy...
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Alter: Why Entitlement Reforms Are Essential
Friday at 11:59 PM, sequestration officially began, triggering sharp across-the-board cuts without much progress on bipartisan replacement plan. Our...
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Burwell Nominated for OMB Director
In a move that had been anticipated for a while, the Obama Administration has nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be the next OMB director. Jeff...
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Senate Sequester Proposals Get Scored
We brought up a couple of weeks ago that there were a number of plans to replace the sequester for either a year or permanently. Now, CBO has given us...
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Brookings Rethinks...New Revenue Sources
Throughout the week we have been breaking down the new report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, " 15 Ways to Rethink the Federal...