2025 Reconciliation
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What’s in the Senate Budget Committee’s Budget Resolution?
Read moreThe Senate Budget Committee recently reported out a budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 through 2034 and will soon consider it in the full...
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Taking a Closer Look at the House Budget’s Reconciliation Instructions
Read moreNote (2/19/2025): The below analysis was written before the committee marked up the resolution and added a requirement for an additional $500 billion...
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CBO's Revenue Savings Options
Read moreUpdate: The offset options below were estimated prior to enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and have not been updated. Some options...
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$3 Trillion of Dynamic Feedback is Fantasy Math
Read moreAccording to a recent press report, the House may try to claim $3 trillion of deficit reduction as a result of “assumed economic growth from tax cuts”...
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Interest Costs Would Explode with $5.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package
Read moreA recent press report indicated that House leadership may be considering a budget resolution that would allow up to $5.5 trillion of net primary...
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Debt-to-GDP Growth Could Double with a $5.5 Trillion Bill
Read moreAccording to press reports, House lawmakers were recently considering a budget resolution with reconciliation instructions to allow up to $5.5...
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Weakening the SALT Cap is Costly, Benefits High-Earners, & Increases Tax Complexity
Read moreThe Tax Policy Center (TPC) recently published analyses of several options to raise the $10,000 State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction cap, which is set...
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Putting Numbers to TCJA Dynamic Feedback Estimates
Read moreAs we have pointed out before, extending the various individual and estate tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) beyond their scheduled...
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Weakening the SALT Cap Would be a Costly Mistake
Read moreAccording to press reports, policymakers are considering changes to the $10,000 state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap as part of their efforts to...
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Medicaid Savings Options
Read moreUpdate: The offset options below were estimated prior to enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and have not been updated. Some options...
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Options for Reducing the Revenue Loss of TCJA Extension
Read moreUpdate: The offset options below were estimated prior to enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and have not been updated. Some options...
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You Can’t Just Wish Away Deficit Effects by Assuming Something is Permanent
Read moreSome lawmakers are making the case that expiring tax cuts should be considered permanent in order to hide the $3.9 trillion increase in deficits that...