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A 5 Percent Discretionary Cut Still Provides Ample Spending
President Trump has asked each cabinet secretary to propose a plan to cut 5 percent of their agency's budget for next year. Assuming this...
Memo to the JSC: Joint Select Committee Reform Options
With the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform (JSC) preparing for a likely mark-up during the week of November 12, we...
Memo to the JSC: Including Debt Targets in the JSC’s Budget Process Reform Package
The statutory deadline for reporting legislation is moving ever closer, and public statements show a notable portion of the Members of the Joint...
3rd Quarter Growth of 3.5 Percent is Good News, But Doesn't Reflect a Sustained Boost
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) today announced its initial estimate that the economy grew at a 3.5 percent annualized rate in the...
Marc Goldwein and Mark Litow: The fate of American health-care reform is on the ballot this November
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and Mark Litow is the...
The 75-Year Budget Outlook
The federal budget is on an unsustainable long-term trajectory. With federal debt already high and rising, the country’s fiscal outlook in the medium...
Project Spotlight
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American Health Care: Rethinking the Challenges, Opportunities, and... -
There is a growing consensus that the budget process is broken.... -
In our series, Budgeting for the Next Generation,[*]we review federal... -
Our Fiscal FactCheck series holds policymakers and candidates... -
The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is a project dedicated... -
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.
