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Feb 27, 2025

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Budget Process

“Current Policy Baseline” Gimmick Could Explode the Debt

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Mar 13, 2025

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Other Spending

A $2 Trillion Cut Compared to $86 Trillion in Spending

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Mar 24, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

Taxes

Tax Cut Extensions Would Add $37 Trillion to Debt by 2054

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Apr 2, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

CRFB Reacts to Senate Proposed Budget

The Senate Budget Committee released a draft amendment to the House’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution today, which the Senate intends to adopt...

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Apr 2, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

Senate Should Not Undermine Budget Rules to Pass Tax Cuts

In developing a budget resolution, the Senate had considered adopting a “current policy baseline” to obscure nearly $4 trillion of borrowing over the...

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Apr 2, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

Taxes

Rumored Senate Reconciliation Instructions Would Double Debt Growth

Press reports indicate that Senate leadership may release a proposed concurrent budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 as early as today with...

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Apr 1, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

Taxes

Fiscal Goals Become Very Difficult with Reconciliation Plans

It would take more than $7 trillion of ten-year savings to stabilize debt at the size of the economy by Fiscal Year (FY) 2034. But rather than making...

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Mar 31, 2025

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Budgets & Projections

The House’s $2 Trillion in Spending Cuts Should Be an Absolute Minimum

The reconciliation instructions in the House’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution – which allow up to $2.8 trillion of net borrowing through 2034...

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Mar 31, 2025

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Budget Process

Debt Ceiling Needs to be Raised in Advance of X Date

Recent reports from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Bipartisan Policy Center estimate that the debt ceiling, which was reinstated on...

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US Budget Watch 2024

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