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Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Updated 2/22/2019: Congress passed full appropriations for the remaining seven appropriations bills for the rest of fiscal year 2019, and the...
Budget Resolution Principles for Fiscal Year 2020
The congressional budget resolution should establish the nation’s priorities, the approach to financing them, and a plan to ensure the nation is on a...
Maya MacGuineas: The Rise of Free Lunch Economics & the Growth of Our National Debt
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an ...
Tyler Evilsizer: Putting the Trump Tax Cuts Will Pay For Themselves Myth To Bed
Tyler Evilsizer is deputy policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for...
Appropriations Watch: FY 2019
Last Updated 2/15/2019
Congress passed full appropriations for the remaining seven appropriations bills for the rest of fiscal year 2019, and...
As Debt Rises, Interest Costs Could Top $1 Trillion
The fastest growing item in the budget over the next decade will be interest on the debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
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Project Spotlight
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American Health Care: Rethinking the Challenges, Opportunities, and...
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There is a growing consensus that the budget process is broken....
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In our series, Budgeting for the Next Generation,[*]we review federal...
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Our Fiscal FactCheck series holds policymakers and candidates...
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FixUS seeks to better understand the root causes of our nation’s...
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The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is a project dedicated...
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The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a non-partisan national movement...
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public on issues with significant fiscal policy impact.