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Lawmakers Reintroduce Sustainable Budget Act
Lawmakers in both chambers of Congress recently reintroduced the Sustainable Budget Act, with Representatives Ed Case (D-HI) and Steve Womack (R-AR)...
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One Month Until Congressional Budgets Come Due
The deadline for the House and Senate Budget Committees to propose and reconcile their respective budgets for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 – April 15 th – is...
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The Debt Ceiling and Fiscal Reforms
With 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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IRS Funding Repeal Could Cost Over $100 Billion, Encourage Tax Cheating
1/9 Update: CBO released a score of the bill, incorporated below. The House is likely to vote today on a bill that would rescind roughly $70 billion...
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Congress Approved $113 Billion of Aid to Ukraine in 2022
Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine less than one year ago, Congress has approved more than $113 billion of aid and military assistance to...
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Maya MacGuineas: Three things Congress must do to curb our nation’s spiraling debt crisis
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently co-authored an...
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Year-End Borrowing Could Worsen Deficits and Inflation
With inflation surging and debt approaching record levels, policymakers should avoid worsening the deficit and should at least pledge to add no new...
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Rules Reform – Ideas for the 118th Congress
At the beginning of each new session of Congress, the House of Representatives must agree on a new set of rules governing how business will be...
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Legislation to Bring Transparency to MA Introduced
Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) introduced legislation this week that would require Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to provide data on supplemental...
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New MA Bill Would Increase Medicare Costs
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act ( HR 3173). The legislation would place requirements...
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Six Ways to Fight Inflation
Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) inflation rose by 6.3 percent over the past year and 0.6 percent last month according to new data from the...
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Reducing Drug Prices and the Tax Gap
As lawmakers negotiate a possible reconciliation bill, they should look to offsets from the House-passed Build Back Better Act (BBB) to help fund new...