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Trump Budget Spending Increases Aren’t All Paid For
Read moreAlthough President’s Trump “ skinny budget” pays for most of its defense spending increases with cuts elsewhere, one-fifth of the spending increases...
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Maya MacGuineas and Robert L. Bixby: Trump's "skinny budget" gets an incomplete
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and Robert L. Bixby, executive...
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AHCA Saves Money, But Could Make Getting to Balance Harder
Read moreHouse Republican leaders have introduced an ACA replacement bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
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President Trump's FY 2018 "Skinny Budget"
Read moreThe Trump Administration today released its "skinny budget," which details its plans for defense and non-defense discretionary spending for Fiscal...
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Statement on Trump's Skinny Budget
Read morePresident Trump’s administration released its “skinny” budget today with a plan to release further details in the coming months. The skinny budget...
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Update: The Cost of Rising Interest Rates
Read moreOver the next decade, interest payments on the debt are projected to be the fastest growing part of the federal budget. Last year, the federal...
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CRFB Co-Chair Leon Panetta Tells Face the Nation We Must “Put Everything on the Table”
Read moreCRFB Co-Chair Leon Panetta was on Face the Nation on CBS this Sunday. Among a variety of topics, the former Secretary of Defense, Director of the...
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Cutting the Smallest and Slowest Growing Part of the Budget
Read morePresident Trump's March budget release will reportedly increase defense spending next year by $54 billion and cut non-defense spending by the same...
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Join CRFB as We Live Tweet the President's Address to Congress
Read morePresident Trump will give his first address before a joint session of Congress tonight at 9 PM Eastern time. CRFB will be live tweeting the speech...
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Co-Chairs Call on Trump to Talk About National Debt in First Address to Joint Session of Congress
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget co-chairs Mitch Daniels, Leon Panetta, and Tim Penny released the following statement Monday calling on...
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Statement by Maya MacGuineas on President’s National Debt Comments
Read moreToday, President Trump said the national debt went down $12 billion in the first month of his presidency. Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee...
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What We’d Like to See in President Trump’s FY 2018 “Skinny Budget”
Read moreThe Trump Administration is expected to soon release its first budget outlining the President’s priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 and the...