Budget Process
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Government Reopening Proposal Would be the Costliest in History
Read moreSome lawmakers have called for increasing federal health care spending by $1.5 trillion to permanently extend the expiring enhanced Affordable Care...
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Appropriations 101
Read moreWhat are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How does Congress allocate appropriations? How are...
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Government Shutdowns Q&A: Everything You Should Know
Read moreFiscal Year (FY) 2025 will end on September 30, and Congress has so far enacted zero of the 12 full-year appropriations bills to fund the government...
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Reduce the Debt with Government Funding Deadline
Read moreFiscal Year 2025 will end on September 30, and none of the 12 appropriations bills to fund the government have been signed into law. Without action...
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It's Time for "Super PAYGO"
Read more“Pay-As-You-Go” or PAYGO rules and laws require offsets for new tax cuts and mandatory spending so they do not add to the debt. 1 Too often these...
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Introduce Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act
Read moreRepresentatives Ben Cline (R-VA) and Jared Golden (D-ME) introduced the Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act (FCPA) today. This bill was also...
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Congress Should Extend Caps on Discretionary Spending
Read moreThe discretionary spending caps put in place under the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) are scheduled to expire on October 1. As lawmakers work to...
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2025 Reconciliation Resources
Read moreThe 119th Congress is expected to use the reconciliation process to pass legislation with a significant fiscal impact, such as extending the expiring...
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2025 Reconciliation Tracker
Read moreUpdated 7/11/25: On July 1, 2025, the Senate passed its version of the OBBBA by a narrow 51–50 vote —Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaker...
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Maya MacGuineas on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria"
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria" to break down the One...
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Senate Current Policy Gimmick Masks $4.2 Trillion of Borrowing
Read moreOn Saturday, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released a score of the proposed Finance Committee title of the Senate reconciliation bill...
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Keith Hall: Congress’ Scorekeeper Is Under Attack. It Deserves Our Trust.
Read moreKeith Hall is a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and former chief economist...