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Interest Spending Is On Course to Quadruple
Read moreThe fastest growing part of the federal budget is interest on the debt – payments made to service previous borrowing. While interest had already been...
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Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on Tax Extenders
Read moreOn March 14, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Ways and Means Tax Policy...
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WATCH: MacGuineas Testifies Before Ways & Means Tax Policy Subcommittee
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified before the House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee on tax...
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Maya MacGuineas to Testify Before Two Congressional Committees on Wednesday
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas will testify before two House Committees on Wednesday, March 14 on two important...
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Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on CBO Oversight: Perspectives from Outside Experts
Read moreOn March 14, 2018, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Budget Committee on "CBO Oversight...
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WATCH: MacGuineas Testifies Before House Budget Committee
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified before the House Budget Committee on CBO Oversight on...
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Maya MacGuineas: Federal Budget Increasingly Tilted Against Investment in Children
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Event Recap: Better Budget Process Summit
Read moreOn February 26, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted the first annual Better Budget Process Summit on “Rebuilding Confidence in...
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The President's Budget Proposes Smart Health Savings
Read moreMuch of the health care discussion in President Trump's FY 2019 budget has focused on his $700 billion plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care...
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Updating the U.S. Budget Outlook
Read moreNote (4/30/2018): This paper was published before CBO's April 2018 baseline, which provides official estimates of the fiscal situation. For the...
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Budget Summit to Spur Action on Reform
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget convened the first annual “ Better Budget Process Summit” Monday in Washington...
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Playing By the (Budget) Rules: Understanding and Preventing Budget Gimmicks
Read moreThe breakdown in the federal budget process and erosion of budget discipline have led to the increasingly pervasive reliance on budget gimmicks. While...