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No Score, No Vote: House Should Not Vote on Reconciliation Without a Score
Read moreFor Immediate Release Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently called for the House of Representatives to pass its reconciliation bill, the Build Back...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
Read moreThis paper has been updated here. The new fiscal year (FY) will begin on October 1, 2021, and Congress has so far enacted none of the 12...
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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...
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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...
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Keeping Offsets on the Table
Read moreAs lawmakers work to put together a reconciliation package that could include up to $3.5 trillion of gross spending and tax breaks, resistance has...
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Representatives Murphy and Cuellar Push for Fiscally Responsible Reconciliation
Read moreRepresentatives Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) and Henry Cuellar (D-TX) recently sent a letter to House majority leadership outlining principles for the...
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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...
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Comparing the Cost of Build Back Better to Other Recent Legislation
Read moreLawmakers are preparing to consider both portions of President Biden's Build Back Better agenda – the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill and...
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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...
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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...
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More Pay-Fors Needed for Bipartisan Infrastructure Act
Read moreThe Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, bipartisan legislation to increase federal infrastructure investments. The legislation...
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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...