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Quick Take: Social Security & Medicare Headed For Insolvency in 16 & 7 Years
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees have released their reports on the financial state of their programs. Both reports show the programs need to...
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GAO: "Federal Government Is on an Unsustainable Fiscal Path"
Read moreThe Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its long-term budget projections, and, like other forecasts, it projects that debt will...
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Maya MacGuineas & Ed Rendell: Tax Day Trauma: Paying for Our Massive National Debt
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. Governor Ed Rendell is the...
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Why Should We Worry About the National Debt: Questions and Answers
Read more“Why Should We Worry About the National Debt?” describes six important ways that the growing national debt will affect the budget and the economy...
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Why Should We Worry About the National Debt?
Read moreThough the national debt is at a post-war high, the willingness of policymakers to address it seems as if it is at an all-time low. The last two years...
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Maya MacGuineas and Mike Murphy: Disastrous Record Deficits Threaten US Future
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Mike Murphy is director of the Committee's new initiative, FixUS...
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House Spending Plan Would Increase Discretionary Spending to Record Levels
Read moreThe House Budget Committee proposal to raise the caps on discretionary spending would add over $2 trillion in projected debt over the next decade...
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Letter for the Record on Comprehensive Legislative Proposals on Social Security
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget submitted a letter for the record from CRFB president Maya MacGuineas pertaining to the House Ways and...
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House Spending Bill Would Cost Twice as Much as Sequester Repeal
Read moreDefenders of the House spending bill have argued that despite its $2.1 trillion debt impact, it is necessary to prevent the return of sequester-level...
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New Budget Cap Plan Would Cost As Much As the Tax Cuts
Read moreEarlier this week, the House Budget Committee reported a bill – the Investing for the People Act of 2019 – that would increase current law caps on...
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Policymakers Should Not Add Trillions to the Debt through New Cap Deal
Read moreFor Immediate Release: House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) released details of a plan Tuesday to forgo consideration of a budget...
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Proposed Budget Plan Would Cost Over $2 Trillion
Read moreIn lieu of a budget resolution, the House Budget Committee has put forward a bill to increase discretionary spending caps by $358 billion over the...