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Maya MacGuineas: Federal Budget Increasingly Tilted Against Investment in Children
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Bipartisan Budget Act Means the Return of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Read moreLawmakers have passed a budget deal that will increase deficits by $320 billion over a decade or almost $420 billion with interest and sets the stage...
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Budget Deal Could Lead to $2 Trillion Deficits
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congress passed a massive budget agreement early Friday that adds almost $420 billion with interest to the national debt over...
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Budget Deal Could Ultimately Add $2 Trillion in Debt
Read moreThe budget deal lawmakers have agreed to would increase discretionary spending above and beyond repeal of the sequester and the caps set in law under...
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Budget Deal Would Bust Original BCA Caps
Read moreThe budget deal currently being considered by Congress would increase discretionary spending caps over the next two years by $165 billion for defense...
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Budget Deal Will Bring Back Trillion-Dollar Deficits and Could Ultimately Add More Than $1.5 Trillion to the Debt
Read moreFor Immediate Release Senate leaders have agreed to a massive budget deal raising the defense and nondefense spending caps for two years, increasing...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
Read moreThis paper has been updated here. As we’ve learned to expect, Congress seems to be waiting until the last minute to address several important fiscal...
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Maya MacGuineas: Wake Up: The Current Fiscal Free-for-All is Untenable
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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House Continuing Resolution Sets Stage for Over $300 Billion in Costs
Read moreHouse Republicans released a draft continuing resolution (CR) last night to extend current levels of discretionary spending through February 16, which...
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Lawmakers Should Offset Upcoming Disaster Relief
Read moreOne of many things lawmakers are poised to take up early in the year is additional disaster relief in response to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
Read moreThis paper has been updated here. As we’ve learned to expect, Congress seems to be waiting until the last minute to address several important fiscal...
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Sequester Relief is Too Costly to Add to the Credit Card
Read moreDuring the busy end to the year, lawmakers enacted a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded through January 19. When that CR ends...