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How the House Could Meet the Budget Resolution's Reconciliation Instructions
The FY 2019 House budget resolution calls for $6.5 trillion of policy savings over ten years, but the true action is in the reconciliation...
Maya MacGuineas: Rescission Fight About Much More than a Few Billion Dollars
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 ...
Did the U.S. Really Spend $7 Trillion on Middle Eastern Wars?
In a roundtable in Minnesota yesterday, President Donald Trump claimed "we have $7 trillion in the Middle East", a rephrasing of his previous claims...
Goldman Sachs Warns that the US Fiscal Outlook is “Not Good”
In a report released last month by Goldman Sachs, Chief Economist Jan Hatzius describes the U.S. fiscal outlook as “not good.” If left unchanged...
Appropriations Watch: FY 2019
Last Updated 6/21/2018
Congress began appropriations work for FY 2019 in April. The enactment of the 2018 Bipartisan Budget Act increased defense...
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Reacts to House Budget Resolution
For Immediate Release
House Budget Committee Chairman Steve Womack (R-AR) introduced today a Chairman’s Mark of the Fiscal Year 2019 budget...
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American Health Care: Rethinking the Challenges, Opportunities, and... -
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The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a non-partisan national movement...
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