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Budget Resolution Principles for Fiscal Year 2021
Read moreThe Congressional budget resolution should establish national priorities in a responsible manner. Congress should follow these principles to craft a...
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Lawmakers Release Emergency Funding Request on Coronavirus
Read moreAppropriators released today their $8.3 billion emergency funding bill to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak, $5.8 billion more than the $2.5 billion...
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Thoughtful Deficit Reduction in the President’s Budget
Read moreWhile much of the decline in debt as a share of GDP in the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget comes from rosy economic growth assumptions and...
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How Much Does a Payroll Tax Holiday Cost?
Read morePresident Trump tweeted support for a one-year payroll tax cut Monday evening, saying: The Democrats in the House should propose a very simple one...
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Maya MacGuineas: Both Republicans and Democrats are ignoring a growing danger to our economy and national security: the national debt
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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How Will Candidate Plans Affect Total Health Costs?
Read moreWe recently updated our estimates of the budgetary impacts of health care reform plans put forward by 2020 presidential candidates Joe Biden, Bernie...
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Event Recap: Better Budget Process Summit: Building Momentum for Meaningful Reform
Read moreOn February 25, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted the second Better Budget Process Summit on "Building Momentum for Meaningful...
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Pete Buttigieg's Climate Change Plan
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has proposed a climate change plan with an end goal of getting...
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New Infographics on 2020 Candidates' Health Plans
Read moreWe have updated these infographics – originally published on February 7 – to reflect a new set of proposals released on February 24 by Senator Sanders...
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Primary Care: Estimating Democratic Candidates’ Health Plans
Read moreSenator Bernie Sanders released a new set of proposals to offset the cost of his health care plan this week. Based on these new proposals, we have...
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Congress Increasingly Fails to Budget
Read moreThe Congressional budget process calls for an annual budget resolution to make explicit the tradeoffs between discretionary spending, direct spending...
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Watch: 2020 Better Budget Process Summit - Building Momentum for Meaningful Reform
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted the “2020 Better Budget Process Summit: Building Momentum for Meaningful Reform.” The event...