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Comparing the House vs. Senate on FY 2025 Reconciliation
Read moreThe concurrent budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 has been adopted by both the House and Senate. It includes reconciliation instructions that...
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Experts Push Back on Current Policy Switch
Read moreAs Congress continues to discuss a compromise budget resolution between the House and Senate, setting the stage for reconciliation, the choice of...
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Deficits Could Reach $3.5T With Senate Instructions
Read moreThe concurrent budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, adopted by the House last week and the Senate the week prior, includes reconciliation...
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Unpaid-for TCJA Extension Would Shrink the Economy, CBO Says
Read moreIn a recent long-term analysis, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that extending the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) would not only...
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Memo: CEA’s Flawed Analysis Does Not Show TCJA Extension Would Produce 3% Growth
Read moreSummary Points The estimates from the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) 1 imply TCJA extension would boost average annual GDP growth to 2.1 percent...
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What’s in the Senate’s Concurrent FY 2025 Budget?
Read moreUpdate (4/11/2025): The Senate adopted the budget described below on April 5, 2025, and the House adopted the budget on April 10, 2025, making this...
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Fiscal Goals Become Very Difficult with Reconciliation Plans
Read moreIt would take more than $7 trillion of ten-year savings to stabilize debt at the size of the economy by Fiscal Year (FY) 2034. But rather than making...
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The House’s $2 Trillion in Spending Cuts Should Be an Absolute Minimum
Read moreThe reconciliation instructions in the House’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution – which allow up to $2.8 trillion of net borrowing through 2034...
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Tax Cut Extensions Would Add $37 Trillion to Debt by 2054
Read moreIn a recent letter, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that extending and reviving various provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
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Ending Taxes Below $150,000 Would Lose $10 to $15 Trillion
Read moreMembers of the Trump Administration and Congress have recently discussed the idea of waiving all taxes for those making less than $150,000 per year...
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Primer: Understanding the Tax Gap
Read moreNote: This is an update of our Tax Gap Primer using the latest available data from the IRS. One of the most fair and efficient ways for policymakers...
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Senators Push Back Against Current Policy Gimmick
Read moreUpdate: JCT issued a response to the letter confirming the default approach to scoring tax legislation is using a current law baseline as established...