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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Read moreThis is an archived version of this table last updated on August 14, 2020.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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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A Visualization of the CARES Act
Read moreThe President yesterday signed into law the CARES Act, a $2.3 trillion relief package aimed at ameliorating some of the effects of the economic...
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These Provisions Have No Place in an Emergency Bill
Read moreNegotiators continue to work on a third response bill to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with legislation proposed today by House Democrats and...
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Don’t Play Politics with the Coronavirus Response
Read moreFor Immediate Release Policymakers are currently drafting legislation to mitigate the economic damage caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic...
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Pete Buttigieg's Climate Change Plan
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has proposed a climate change plan with an end goal of getting...
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Bernie Sanders's Plan for Universal Child Care and Pre-K Education
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today unveiled his plan to provide free universal child care and pre-kindergarten...
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Bill Advances to Combat Improper Payments
Read moreCongress recently passed a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) to improve efforts to identify and reduce improper payments across...
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BPC Releases Recommendations on Reforming Federal Higher Education Support
Read moreThe Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Task Force on Higher Education Financing and Student Outcomes recently released a report outlining 45...
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Have We Spent Trillions on Wars?
Read morePresidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed at the presidential debate last week that the wars in the Middle East "have cost us...