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Budgeting for the Next Generation: Does the Budget Process Prioritize Children?
Read moreCompared to other age groups, children have higher levels of poverty, less ability to provide for themselves, and greater potential to support future...
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Has Revenue Risen in 2018?
Read moreA recent Wall Street Journal piece suggests that despite massive tax cuts, revenue continues to rise. In reality, revenue has fallen since the...
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Maya MacGuineas: Fiscal Recklessness Puts the Next Crisis on Our Doorstep
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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CBO Releases New Economic Projections
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new ten-year economic projections today, updating its projections from April. The latest projections...
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A Plan to Save the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreHouse Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) recently introduced a discussion draft of legislation to improve the...
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CBO Shows That Policymakers Could Make the Long-Term Outlook Much Worse
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a look at various long-term budget scenarios. Most notably, the report shows how much more bleak...
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CBO’s Alternative Long-Term Budget Scenarios
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released alternative scenarios to its Long-Term Budget Outlook today. These scenarios show that if the recent...
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CRFB Reacts to Capital Gains Tax Proposal
Read moreFor Immediate Release Recently, a number of proposals have emerged to modify the capital gains tax – either by legislation or through administrative...
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Maya MacGuineas: National Debt is About to Roar Back to Life as a Pressing Issue
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, published an op-ed with CNN. An excerpt is below. As a result of an...
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Proposed Senate Point of Order Would Limit Health Care Proposals in Budget Reconciliation
Read moreFor Immediate Release Today, 12 senators introduced a proposal that would establish a new Senate point of order to restrict the types of changes that...
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Three Measures We Hope the JSC Will Consider
Read moreThe Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform (JSC) has an important opportunity to improve our broken budget process. Recent...
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Has the Recent Economic Boom Offset 88% of the Cost of the Tax Cut?
Read moreIn a Wall Street Journal op-ed shared by the House Ways and Means Committee, Mike Solon of US Policy Metrics makes the argument that thanks to recent...