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The CRFB Fiscal Blueprint for Reducing Debt and Inflation
Read moreThe United States faces numerous economic and fiscal challenges, including surging inflation, rising interest rates, trust funds heading toward...
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A $1.4 Trillion Deficit Is Not An Accomplishment
Read moreThe U.S. Treasury Department released the final Monthly Treasury Statement for Fiscal Year 2022 today, confirming the deficit totaled nearly $1.4...
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COVID Relief End Explains All of 2022 Deficit Decline
Read moreThe budget deficit fell by half between Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 and FY 2022, from $2.8 trillion to $1.4 trillion. While the Biden Administration has...
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Rules Reform – Ideas for the 118th Congress
Read moreAt the beginning of each new session of Congress, the House of Representatives must agree on a new set of rules governing how business will be...
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Treasury: FY 2022 Deficit Was $1.4 Trillion
Read moreThe US Department of the Treasury released its final Monthly Treasury Statement for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, showing a $1.4 trillion deficit for the...
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CBO Offers Approaches to Reduce Commercial Health Prices
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a report discussing different policy approaches to reducing the prices paid by commercial...
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New York Times Highlights Need to Improve Medicare Advantage
Read moreA recent investigation published in The New York Times highlights the need for Medicare Advantage (MA) improvements by calling attention to widespread...
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Fiscal Policy in a Time of High Inflation
Read moreInflation is currently surging at the fastest rate in more than four decades, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) up 8.2 percent over the past year...
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FY 2022 Deficit Totals $1.4 Trillion
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its final monthly budget review of Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, which shows that the budget deficit...
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Student Debt Cancellation is Not Financially Justified
Read moreThe White House has justified the unilateral implementation of its $400 billion student debt cancellation plan based on authority the Secretary of...
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Is Biden's Student Debt Cancellation Plan Still Regressive?
Read moreThe Biden Administration’s new $420 billion student debt cancellation and repayment pause plan will deliver the majority of the benefits to those in...
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U.S. Gross Debt Tops $31 Trillion
Read moreThe gross national debt of the United States eclipsed $31 trillion yesterday, just nine months after the federal government’s gross debt exceeded $30...