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Limiting the Cost of Medicare Expansion
Read moreAs Congress negotiates proposals for Medicare benefit expansions, it should consider ways to limit their costs by either dropping the expansions... -
Reconciliation Unlikely to Produce $600 Billion in Dynamic Revenue
Read morePolicymakers are claiming their $3.5 trillion reconciliation package will be fully paid for by counting on $600 billion of dynamic feedback on top of... -
Five Ways to Improve the FY 2022 Reconciliation Package
Read moreCongress is attempting to enact a large and ambitious agenda of new programs through the reconciliation process. While President Biden has made the... -
Better Targeting in Reconciliation
Read moreAs lawmakers negotiate the details of their reconciliation package, they will need to scale back some of their ambitions to prevent arbitrary policy... -
Biden Administration’s SNAP Increase Could Add $180 Billion to Deficits
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced it will be revising the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), used for the calculation of Supplemental... -
It’s Time to Wind Down the Student Loan Moratorium
Read moreThe Biden administration recently extended the federal student loan moratorium through January 2022. Under the moratorium, most federal student loan... -
How Much Could Build Back Better Add to the Debt, An Update
Read moreNote: with recent Administrative actions on SNAP, debt-to-GDP will be about 0.6 percent higher in all scenarios. As a result, it will now reach 107... -
Former Budget Committee Director Warns Against Budgetary Gimmicks
Read moreFormer Democratic House Budget Committee staff director Tom Kahn recently penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in which he commended Congress... -
CBO Report Shows Infrastructure is More Pro-Growth When It's Paid For
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report today detailing the macroeconomic effects of two illustrative, $500 billion infrastructure... -
Infrastructure Plan Will Add $400 Billion to the Deficit, CBO Finds
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just published its score of the recently unveiled bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Though its... -
Comparing the Permanent Costs of Build Back Better and the TCJA
Read moreThe bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the forthcoming budget reconciliation bill – together making up the core of the "Build Back... -
What's in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act?
Read moreUPDATE 8/5: We have published a new summary of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act based on a recently published score from the...