Budget Process
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Policymakers Must Avoid A Budget Busting Summer
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congress returns from the July 4 recess in the midst of negotiating three major spending packages: a bipartisan infrastructure...
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ARCHIVE: Appropriations 101
Read moreWhat are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How will this year's appropriations process be different? How...
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Reconciliation Should Not Add to the Debt
Read moreFor Immediate Release Recent reports suggest the Senate Budget Committee is considering a budget that would call for $6 trillion in new spending, half...
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House Members Urge the Adoption of a Budget Resolution
Read moreOn Monday, a group of five Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calling for increased...
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CRFB Launches Suite of Budget Games
Read moreToday the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched Budgeting for the Future, a suite of interactive games related to the federal budget and...
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Senator Lummis Introduces Sustainable Budget Act
Read moreSenator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) recently introduced the Sustainable Budget Act with Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Rounds (R-SD)...
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Kinzinger and Phillips Call for a Bipartisan Commission to Address the Deficit
Read moreRepresentatives Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Dean Phillips (D-MN) recently introduced a joint resolution to establish a National Committee on Fiscal...
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TRUST Act has Bipartisan, Bicameral Reintroduction
Read moreLast week, a bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers reintroduced the TRUST Act, which would establish bipartisan commissions to restore solvency...
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Maya MacGuineas: Make the budget committees great again
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Burchett and Case Reintroduce RAFT Act
Read moreEstablishing fiscal goals, including debt targets, is one proactive way to begin to tackle our nation's unsustainable fiscal situation. Legislation...
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Bill Hoagland: Reconciliation, corrupted by Congress: May it R.I.P.
Read moreThe current Democratic reconciliation bill and the 2017 Republican tax reconciliation measure have paid scant attention to the country’s mounting debt...
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Case and Womack Reintroduce Sustainable Budget Act
Read moreThis week, Representatives Ed Case (D-HI) and Steve Womack (R-AR) reintroduced the Sustainable Budget Act. The bill would create a fiscal commission...