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Year-End Tax Cuts Would Add $470 Billion to the Debt
Read moreFor Immediate Release Press reports suggest lawmakers are negotiating a deal to combine year-end funding bills with a series of large tax cuts –...
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Erskine Bowles and Henry Paulson: How to Get Americans to Love Capitalism Again
Read moreErskine Bowles served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998 and is a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
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Maya MacGuineas: Utah Statesmen Seek to Fix Our Most Pressing Problems
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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OECD: U.S. Has the Highest Deficit
Read moreThe United States had the highest deficit in 2018 among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries according to the...
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Burchett, Case, and Womack Introduce RAFT Act
Read moreOne way to begin addressing our unsustainable fiscal situation is to set fiscal goals, which could come in the form of debt targets. A new bill...
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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Takes on Temporary Tax Breaks
Read moreThe Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote an opinion piece today decrying special interest tax subsidies that may be added to a year-end spending...
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Washington Must Avoid Budget-Busting Christmas Tree Legislation
Read moreFor Immediate Release Back from Thanksgiving recess, Congress now has less than three weeks to fund the government before the current continuing...
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Case and Womack Introduce Sustainable Budget Act
Read moreBuilding on bipartisan momentum for addressing our unsustainable fiscal situation, Representative Ed Case (D-HI) and House Budget Committee Ranking...
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Enzi-Whitehouse Budget Process Bill Includes Important Reforms
Read moreThe Senate Budget Committee recently marked up and reported bipartisan legislation to reform the budget process. The Bipartisan Congressional Budget...
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Watch: Opportunities for Lowering Health Care Costs
Read moreOn November 21, we hosted a major event on reducing health care costs for families, businesses, and the federal government. The event featured two...
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Factchecking and Live-Tweeting the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates
Read moreTonight's Democratic presidential primary debate marks the fifth round of debates of the 2020 campaign and will surely touch on fiscal issues. Through...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
Read moreThe fiscal year began on Oct. 1, 2019, and Congress has enacted none of 12 appropriations bills setting discretionary spending levels. Lawmakers have...