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Analysis of the President’s FY 2020 Budget
Read moreThe Trump Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget proposal today, outlining the President’s tax and spending priorities over the next...
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President’s Budget Would Add More than $10 Trillion to the Debt
Read moreFor Immediate Release: President Donald Trump released a portion of his fiscal year 2020 budget Monday, which proposes a number of tax and spending...
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Bipartisan Recommendations to Reduce Health Spending from Brookings and AEI
Read moreExperts from the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute have released a joint list of recommendations to reduce health care costs...
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Health Spending Outlook Shows Faster Growth Ahead
Read moreThe Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new National Health Expenditure (NHE) projections through 2027, showing health...
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What We’d Like to See in President Trump’s FY 2020 Budget
Read moreReports suggest the Trump administration will release its FY 2020 budget in two parts, beginning next week. With debt at post-war record highs...
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Written Testimony on Our Nation's Crumbling Infrastructure and the Need for Immediate Action
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget submitted testimony for the record pertaining to the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on "Our...
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Annual Deficits Could Hit $2.3 Trillion
Read moreDeficits are rising quickly under current law, as the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) recent budget outlook demonstrates. Under current law, CBO...
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How Much Will Medicare for All Cost?
Read moreRepresentative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a co-chair of the Medicare for All Caucus, released a bill today that would adopt a single-payer system, where...
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Tax Cut and Spending Bill Could Cost $5.5 Trillion Through 2029
Read moreThe 2017 tax cut and the 2018 spending bill loom large in the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) outlook; the two pieces of legislation as...
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SSDI Solutions Initiative Releases Paper on Developing Demonstrations Based on Lessons Learned
Read moreThe McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative yesterday released the first of a series of papers on how to improve policies for people with...
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Budget Resolution Principles for Fiscal Year 2020
Read moreThe congressional budget resolution should establish the nation’s priorities, the approach to financing them, and a plan to ensure the nation is on a...
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Maya MacGuineas: The Rise of Free Lunch Economics & the Growth of Our 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...