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To Fight Inflation, More Deficit Reduction is Better
Read moreIn recent weeks, lawmakers have been negotiating a reconciliation package that would include roughly $1 trillion of revenue and health savings along...
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Surging Inflation Highlights Need for Deficit Reduction, Not Tax Cuts
Read moreCPI inflation set another forty-year record today, rising by 1.3 percent this month and 9.1 percent over the past year. CPI has already risen more...
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Reconciliation Should Reduce Deficits, Fight Inflation, and Strengthen Medicare
Read moreAs negotiations have resumed over a potential reconciliation bill, policymakers should maintain focus on combining any new spending and tax breaks...
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ARCHIVE #2: How Long Before Cancelled Student Debt Would Return?
Read moreNote: This analysis has been updated from the original version to reflect new estimates of how long it would take for the amount of student debt owed...
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Senate Retirement Bill Would Cost $84 Billion Without Gimmicks
Read moreThe Senate Finance Committee recently advanced the Enhancing American Retirement Now (EARN) Act, a bill designed to encourage private retirement...
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Appropriations 101
Read moreThis paper has been updated here. What are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How does Congress allocate...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2022
Read moreNote: For the latest fiscal year, click here . Updated 7/5/22: The Senate passed a roughly $40 billion Ukraine emergency supplemental appropriations...
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Fight Inflation by Lowering Deficits, Not Boosting Them
Read moreYesterday, President Biden told reporters the Administration was nearing decisions on whether to cancel student debt by executive order and whether to...
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Representatives Lee and Pocan Introduce Defense Spending Cuts Legislation
Read moreEarlier this week, Defense Spending Reduction Caucus Co-Chairs Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced the...
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Event Recap: Fiscal Solutions to Climate Change
Read moreOn May 17, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted an event on the "Fiscal Solutions to Climate Change." The virtual event featured a...
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VA Bill Will Cost Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
Read moreThe Senate is expected to vote on the Honoring our PACT Act this week, which would add at least $277 billion to deficits through 2031 and would...
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Veterans Bill Needs Offsets
Read moreThe Senate is set to vote on the Honoring our PACT Act of 2021, which provides health and disability to veterans who may have been exposed to toxic...