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Maya MacGuineas: The debt is huge because Trump kept his promises
Maya 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...
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Janet Yellen and Jared Bernstein: The Senate Is on Vacation While Americans Starve
Janet Yellen is a Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, a former Chair of the Federal...
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Dave McCurdy: Horn leading the way on fixing nation's budget
Dave McCurdy is a former Democratic member of Congress representing Oklahoma’s 4th District and member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal...
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Marc Goldwein: A Way Forward on Unemployment Benefits
Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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James Jones: Pandemic Isn't an Excuse for Reckless Spending
James Jones is the chairman of Monarch Global Strategies and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a piece for...
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Charlie Stenholm: We will have to face rising national debt
Charlie Stenholm is a senior policy advisor at Olsson Frank Weeda, P.C., and a member of the Committee for a Resonsible Federal Budget. He recently...
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Eugene Steuerle: This is not your grandfather's debt problem
Now that the covid-19 crisis has produced predictions that we soon will reach a debt-to-GDP ratio previously seen only once before — during World War...
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Tim Penny: Pandemic-related federal aid: Make it fast, but also make it prudent
Tim Penny is president & CEO of the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation and co-chair of the Committee for a Responsible Budget. He recently wrote...
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Robert Reischauer and Charles Blahous: Letter from Former Trustees of Social Security and Medicare
Robert Reischauer is a former public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, president emeritus of the Urban Institute, and a member...
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Eugene Steuerle: Who Should Pay For The Economic Relief From The COVID-19 Crisis?
As Republicans and Democrats joined hands to provide the most recent of what might be several stages of relief from our national pandemic crisis...
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Maya MacGuineas: Both Republicans and Democrats are ignoring a growing danger to our economy and national security: the national debt
Maya 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...
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Kurt Couchman: When will cheap credit dry up?
Kurt Couchman is co-director of legislative strategy at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for The...