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Government Shutdowns Q&A: Everything You Should Know
Read moreDiscretionary funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 will expire on March 14, and Congress has so far enacted zero of the 12 full-year appropriations bills...
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The Government Needs Funding and the Budget Needs Fixing
Read moreGovernment funding is set to expire on March 14, meaning lawmakers will need to pass – and the President will need to sign – appropriations bills for...
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Chartbook: Reconciliation 101
Read moreOn February 25, Marc Goldwein, senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, gave a presentation...
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Continued Inflation Highlights Danger of More Deficits
Read moreThe Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation — the personal consumption expenditure (PCE) index — came in at 0.3 percent in January, twice the...
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“Current Policy Baseline” Gimmick Could Explode the Debt
Read moreAs the House and Senate work to land on a concurrent budget resolution, Congress may consider trying to measure their reconciliation bills relative to...
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House Budget Passage Tees Up Trillions in Borrowing
Read moreThe House of Representatives just voted to approve its Fiscal Year 2025 budget resolution, a vehicle to allow for budget reconciliation legislation...
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Maya MacGuineas on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power"
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power" with hosts Joe Mathieu and...
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Maya MacGuineas: The Drivers of our Debt and the Empty Rhetoric of Politics Today
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Ripon Forum , an excerpt...
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House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases
Read moreThe House of Representatives will soon consider a budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, which was reported favorably out of the House Budget...
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Options for Student Loan Savings
Read moreThe federal student loan program has a $1.6 trillion outstanding portfolio of loans and is projected to issue an additional trillion dollars in loans...
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Hundreds of Billions in Medicaid Savings from Financing Schemes
Read moreThe budget resolution approved by the House Budget Committee last week includes reconciliation instructions for the Energy and Commerce Committee to...
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What’s in the Senate Budget Committee’s Budget Resolution?
Read moreThe Senate Budget Committee recently reported out a budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 through 2034 and will soon consider it in the full...