Appropriations
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Congress Should Avoid Shutdown Without Further Debt Increases
Read moreThere are just a few weeks left to avoid a government shutdown. Without either a continuing resolution or appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2024...
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Government Shutdowns Q&A: Everything You Should Know
Read moreThe new fiscal year (FY) begins on October 1, 2023, and Congress has so far enacted none of the 12 appropriations bills setting discretionary spending...
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Budget Experts’ Prediction of a Government Shutdown
Read moreWe expect there will be an awful lot of talk about a government shutdown in the coming weeks and months, so we decided to create a highly unscientific...
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Donald Trump's Proposal to Use Impoundment Authority
Read moreIn a video published to his campaign website on June 20, 2023, former President Donald Trump declared he would use “impoundment” authority to reduce...
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Build Your Own Child Tax Credit – A Web-Based Version
Read moreThe Child Tax Credit (CTC) has become a topic of significant debate among policymakers as they wrestle with determining its appropriate size...
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Senate Appropriations Supplemental Could Add $155 Billion to the Debt
Read moreSenate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) announced yesterday that they would introduce add supplemental...
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Rep. Grothman Introduces Bill to Enforce FY 2026-2029 Spending Caps
Read moreRepresentative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) recently introduced the Enforce the Caps Act in the House, along with nearly a dozen co-sponsors . The...
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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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House Appropriations Committee Publishes FY 2024 Community Project Funding Requests
Read moreIn an effort to improve transparency around the appropriations process, the House Appropriations Committee recently centralized a list of Fiscal Year...
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Putting the Limit, Save, Grow Act in Context
Read moreThe Limit, Save, Grow Act would reduce deficits by about $4.5 trillion over the next decade, with $3.2 trillion of those savings coming from caps to...
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Build Your Own Discretionary Budget
Read moreEach year, Congress must pass a new set of appropriations bills to fund the discretionary side of the budget and avoid a government shutdown . There...
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Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2023 Introduced in the Senate
Read moreLast week, Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and a bipartisan group of nine additional senators reintroduced the Prevent...