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Representative Suozzi Introduces the WISH Act
Representative Thomas Suozzi (D-NY) recently introduced the WISH Act, which aims to provide catastrophic long-term care insurance for older Americans...
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Comparing the Permanent Costs of Build Back Better and the TCJA
The bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the forthcoming budget reconciliation bill – together making up the core of the "Build Back...
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How Much Could Build Back Better Add to the Debt?
Note: This analysis was updated for new data and details on August 11, 2021. See the updated analysis here. While we do not have all the estimates for...
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Congress Should Responsibly Lift the Debt Limit
The suspension of the debt ceiling expired on July 31, at which point the ceiling was automatically raised to the current level of debt – around $28.5...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2021
Updated 7/30/2021: The House passed an emergency supplemental appropriations measure of $1.9 billion, intended to to address security concerns at the...
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Fiscal State of the Nation Introduced in the Senate and House
Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Angus King (I-ME), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Mike Braun (R-IN), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV...
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Policymakers Shouldn't Attach More Borrowing to a Debt Ceiling Increase
The debt ceiling, or the statutory limit on the total amount of debt the federal government can accrue, is set to come back on August 1 after being...
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What's in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act?
UPDATE 8/5: We have published a new summary of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act based on a recently published score from the...
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Bipartisan Infrastructure Act a Good Start, But Needs More Pay-Fors
Today, negotiators announced a final legislative package on their $550 billion Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and presented details of that agreement...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling
This paper has been updated here. The federal debt ceiling will be reinstated on August 1, 2021, at around $28.5 trillion. At that point, the Treasury...
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Trust Fund Solutions Would Be Pro-Growth
In our recent paper “ The Case for Trust Fund Solutions,” we showed that making the Social Security, Medicare, and highway trust funds solvent would...
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Injecting Price Competition into Medicare Part B Drugs
Medicare Part B, which covers outpatient physician services, pays for physician-administered drugs by reimbursing physicians the average cost for each...