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Proposed Budget Agreement Could Cost $1.7 Trillion
Read moreUpdate: A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the deal shows that the offsets are $55 billion rather than $77 billion as reported in the press...
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Budget Deal May Be Worst in History
Read moreFor Immediate Release According to press reports, Congress and the President are close to a deal that would lift discretionary spending caps by $320...
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Policymakers Should Offset, or Reset, the Budget Deal
Read moreAccording to news reports, the White House recently sent Congressional leaders nearly $600 billion of potential budget savings options, requesting...
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Watch: What Should We Do About the Zombie Tax Extenders?
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a lunch and panel discussion on What Should We Do About the Zombie Tax Extenders? The...
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Maya MacGuineas: No budget. On the brink of default. It's a hell of a way to run a country.
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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Ways and Means Tax Package Could Cost Over $900 Billion Now
Read moreLast month, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a tax package that would revive and extend several tax extenders through 2020 and dramatically...
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Budget Deal Should Be Paid For
Read moreFor Immediate Release Congressional leaders and the White House are in talks to raise the debt ceiling and statutory budget caps before the August...
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House Should Reject Another Deficit-Financed Tax Cut
Read moreFor Immediate Release The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a permanent repeal of the "Cadillac tax" on high-cost health insurance...
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CBO's Long-Term Debt Outlook Improved Slightly from Last Year, Here's Why
Read moreIn its latest Long-Term Budget Outlook, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects debt held by the public will rise from over 78 percent of Gross...
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Are There $1.6 Trillion in Tax Loopholes?
Read moreFormer Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden told the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Convention on June 28 that the tax code contains $1.6...
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New Pension Bill Adds Too Much to the Debt
Read moreThe House Ways and Means Committee is considering pension reform legislation that CBO estimates will add $ 64 billion to deficits over the next ten...
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Gene Steuerle: Alice Rivlin: The George Washington of the Congressional Budget Office
Read moreAlice Rivlin, who passed away on May 14, was among the greatest public servants of the modern era.