Debt Ceiling
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Maya MacGuineas on Washington Post Live
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently joined Washington Post Live to discuss the debt ceiling, federal...
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Debt Ceiling Must Be Raised As Soon As Possible
Read moreTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a letter to Congressional leadership today estimating the debt limit could be breached as soon as June 1 absent...
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Maya MacGuineas on Fox News' "Sunday Night in America"
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently joined Fox News' "Sunday Night in America" with Trey Gowdy to discuss...
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CRFB Statement on Limit, Save, Grow Act Passage
Read moreThe House of Representatives just passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act, which would raise the debt ceiling, cap discretionary spending, and reduce...
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CBO Scores the Limit, Save, Grow Act
Read moreUpdate (4/26/2023): The Congressional Budget Office released an estimate of the House Rules Committee amendments to the bill, reducing the savings of...
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ARCHIVE: What's in the Limit, Save, Grow Act?
Read moreUpdate (4/25/2023): The Congressional Budget Office has released an official score of the Limit, Save, Grow Act; read our analysis of that score here...
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House Offers a Serious Package of Savings
Read moreToday, House leadership put forward a framework to raise the debt limit while also reducing and capping the growth of discretionary spending...
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William Hoagland: It’s time for both parties to own the debt — and then address it
Read moreG. William Hoagland is senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He...
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The Debt Ceiling and Fiscal Reforms
Read moreWith federal debt subject to the limit currently at $31.38 trillion, the federal government has officially run up against its debt ceiling. In January...
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Marc Goldwein on You Don't Have to Yell Podcast Discussing Debt Ceiling
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein recently appeared on the " You Don't Have to...
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Congress Must Responsibly Raise the Debt Limit
Read moreToday, the Treasury Department announced that it has begun engaging in a set of accounting tools known as “extraordinary measures” to avoid breaching...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling
Read moreThis paper has been updated here. The federal debt ceiling was raised in December of 2021 by $2.5 trillion to $31.381 trillion, which is expected to...