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The COVID-19 Recession Is Unfolding Faster than the Great Recession – and So Is the Response
Read moreWe have published an abbreviated update of this analysis, incorporating additional legislation, updated cost estimates, and new economic projections... -
COVID Money Tracker: Policies Enacted Through August 14
Read moreThis is an archived version of this table last updated on August 14, 2020. For the latest on COVID-related spending, head to our new interactive site... -
Eugene Steuerle: Who Should Pay For The Economic Relief From The COVID-19 Crisis?
Read moreAs Republicans and Democrats joined hands to provide the most recent of what might be several stages of relief from our national pandemic crisis... -
Bernie Sanders's Coronavirus Relief Package
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released his Priorities for the Next Coronavirus Relief Package, a plan to build on... -
Families First Coronavirus Response Act Will Cost $192 Billion
Read moreLast week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored the Families First Coronavirus Response Act ( FFCRA), the second of three packages enacted so... -
CBO Updates Economic Baseline in Wake of COVID-19
Read moreIn anticipation of a score of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the second coronavirus response bill), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO... -
Don’t use COVID-19 to Excuse $2 trillion of Debt-Financed Infrastructure
Read moreFor Immediate Release Yesterday, President Trump suggested that the next phase of economic relief to offset the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19)... -
What's in the $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package?
Read moreUpdated on 4/21/2020 and 4/29/2020 to reflect the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) estimate and subsequent revisions. Lawmakers recently approved... -
How Much Would Sending People Checks Cost?
Read moreExperts and lawmakers are considering numerous options to help support the economy during the COVID-19 crisis. Last week, we estimated that fiscal... -
Kurt Couchman: When will cheap credit dry up?
Read moreKurt Couchman is co-director of legislative strategy at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for The... -
Erskine Bowles and Henry Paulson: How to Get Americans to Love Capitalism Again
Read moreErskine Bowles served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998 and is a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget... -
Maya MacGuineas: With a growing debt, a fiscally responsible blueprint is needed to handle the next recession
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...