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Defunding Health Care Innovation Jeopardizes the Budget
Read moreIn a move that could stall promising health care delivery system reforms and drive up entitlement spending, the House Appropriations Committee last...
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One Month to Go for Highway Funding
Read moreIn a newly released ticker, the Department of Transportation has shown that there is one month left for lawmakers to decide on funding for the Highway...
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Senate Budget Committee Reports Crime Victims Fund Legislation
Read moreLast week, the Senate Budget Committee passed a bill to limit the use of the Crime Victims Fund (CVF) as a back-door method to increase appropriations...
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Shoring Up Trust Funds Greatly Improves Debt
Read moreThe main focus of CBO's long-term budget outlook is rightly on the unified budget numbers regarding spending, revenue, deficits, and debt. But it is...
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Senator Flake Publishes “Jurassic Pork”
Read moreWhat do earmarks and dinosaurs have in common? Both are extinct, but their skeletons still remain. Last week, Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) joined the...
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Why Lawmakers Were Able to Extend Highway Spending for Free
Read moreAt the end of last month, lawmakers passed a two-month extension of the highway authorization bill with very little fuss. There was no discussion of...
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Budget Issues Abound in the Senate Defense Authorization
Read moreUpdate: The Reed amendment was rejected in floor consideration by a 46-51 vote. The Senate is currently considering the National Defense Authorization...
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Congress Postpones Highway Decisions Until July
Read moreThe President signed a two-month extension of the highway bill on Friday evening, postponing decisions about spending and the financing of the Highway...
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Time to Get to Work on a Highway Trust Fund Solution
Read moreLawmakers have many potential options to address the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund. With the President expected to sign a two-month extension of...
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Four Takeaways from the Solutions Initiative Plans
Read moreThe Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative III produced five different fiscal plans that would improve the current long-term budget outlook. We...
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Marc Goldwein: Feds Warn Transit Agencies About Funding Cut Off
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a guest post that...