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Monthly Deficit Hits New Record
Read moreFor Immediate Release The United States ran a record-high budget deficit in February 2020. According to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today...
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Policymakers Should Act Quickly and Responsibly to Boost the Economy
Read moreFor Immediate Release The threat of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has spooked markets and appears likely to significantly weaken the economy on...
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ARCHIVE: Budget Offsets Bank
Read moreNote (7/14/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which includes updated options...
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Blue Dogs to House Budget Committee: Produce a Budget
Read moreSeveral members of the House Blue Dog Coalition sent a letter to House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) last week calling for the...
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Budget Resolution Principles for Fiscal Year 2021
Read moreThe Congressional budget resolution should establish national priorities in a responsible manner. Congress should follow these principles to craft a...
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Lawmakers Release Emergency Funding Request on Coronavirus
Read moreAppropriators released today their $8.3 billion emergency funding bill to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak, $5.8 billion more than the $2.5 billion...
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Thoughtful Deficit Reduction in the President’s Budget
Read moreWhile much of the decline in debt as a share of GDP in the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget comes from rosy economic growth assumptions and...
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How Much Does a Payroll Tax Holiday Cost?
Read morePresident Trump tweeted support for a one-year payroll tax cut Monday evening, saying: The Democrats in the House should propose a very simple one...
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Maya MacGuineas: Both Republicans and Democrats are ignoring a growing danger to our economy and national security: the national debt
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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How Will Candidate Plans Affect Total Health Costs?
Read moreWe recently updated our estimates of the budgetary impacts of health care reform plans put forward by 2020 presidential candidates Joe Biden, Bernie...
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Event Recap: Better Budget Process Summit: Building Momentum for Meaningful Reform
Read moreOn February 25, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted the second Better Budget Process Summit on "Building Momentum for Meaningful...
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Pete Buttigieg's Climate Change Plan
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has proposed a climate change plan with an end goal of getting...