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The President's Budget Saves Medicare $600 Billion While Reducing Out-of-Pocket Costs
Read moreLast year, numerous politicians and outlets repeated the false and misleading claim that the President’s FY 2020 budget cut Medicare benefits by $845...
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Amy Klobuchar’s Plan to “Govern with Fiscal Responsibility”
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) put forward a Plan for the Future of Work and a Changing Economy in December. The plan...
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State of the Union Ignores Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Read moreFor Immediate Release President Trump delivered his third State of the Union Address last night. Notably absent from his speech was any mention of...
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Play Debt-O During State of the Union 2020!
Read moreTonight, President Donald Trump will give his third State of the Union Address at 9 p.m. EST. During the address, we will be live tweeting, providing...
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BPC Releases Recommendations on Reforming Federal Higher Education Support
Read moreThe Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Task Force on Higher Education Financing and Student Outcomes recently released a report outlining 45...
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GAO: Fiscal Sustainability Is a Growing Concern for Some Key Federal Trust Funds
Read moreLast week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the financial health of the nation’s federal trust funds. Requested by...
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Senator Sinema Introduces Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution
Read moreThis week, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), along with Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), and Angus King (I-ME), introduced a bipartisan...
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Analysis of CBO’s Budget and Economic Outlook (January 2020)
Read moreToday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its January 2020 Budget and Economic Outlook, projecting the return of trillion-dollar deficits...
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CBO's Budget Projections Show Deteriorating Fiscal Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook, which shows trillion-dollar deficits returning permanently...
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The Return of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook for the next decade this afternoon, which warned...
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ARCHIVE: Primary Care: Estimating Leading Democratic Candidates’ Health Plans
Read moreNote (2/26/2020): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which includes updated offsets...
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Have We Spent Trillions on Wars?
Read morePresidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed at the presidential debate last week that the wars in the Middle East "have cost us...