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Senate Budget Could Enable Unprecedented Deficit Increase
Read moreThe Senate’s proposed concurrent Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution would allow policymakers to add $5.8 trillion to primary deficits through... -
Rumored Senate Reconciliation Instructions Would Double Debt Growth
Read morePress reports indicate that Senate leadership may release a proposed concurrent budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 as early as today with... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
New Estimates Confirm Economic Growth Won’t Pay for Tax Cuts
Read moreThe latest estimates from third-party modelers confirm what we’ve said several times before: economic growth will not pay for tax cut extensions. New... -
Maya MacGuineas: The Drivers of our Debt and the Empty Rhetoric of Politics Today
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Ripon Forum , an excerpt... -
Taking a Closer Look at the House Budget’s Reconciliation Instructions
Read moreNote (2/19/2025): The below analysis was written before the committee marked up the resolution and added a requirement for an additional $500 billion... -
CBO's Revenue Savings Options
Read moreUpdate: The offset options below were estimated prior to enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and have not been updated. Some options... -
$3 Trillion of Dynamic Feedback is Fantasy Math
Read moreAccording to a recent press report, the House may try to claim $3 trillion of deficit reduction as a result of “assumed economic growth from tax cuts”... -
Trump Tax Priorities Total $5 to $11 Trillion
Read moreIn a closed-door meeting with House Leadership today President Trump reportedly outlined his tax priorities. According to press reports, they included...