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Chairman Enzi Introduces FY 2017 Budget Resolution Providing for ACA Repeal in Senate
Read moreSenate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) introduced a budget resolution for fiscal year (FY) 2017 today narrowly focused on repealing the...
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Lowering the Bar for "Revenue Neutral" Tax Reform
Read moreOne of the key questions of comprehensive tax reform will be its budgetary target. Congressional leaders have set a revenue-neutral target, raising as...
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CBO Releases Additional Details on Social Security Projections
Read moreCBO's annual report on its long-term projections for Social Security continues to show a major shortfall for the program, even larger than the one...
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Event Recap: Gene Steuerle Explains How the Budget Offices Can Reframe Our Long-Term Budget Problems
Read moreAt the Savings and Retirement Foundation’s December meeting, Gene Steuerle, Urban Institute Fellow and CRFB Board Member, presented his recent paper,...
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Can Delaney Provide a Bipartisan Way Forward for Infrastructure and Tax Reform?
Read moreAs discussions about President-elect Trump's first 100 days agenda continue, Representative John Delaney (D-MD) is suggesting that a bill he proposed...
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The Cost of Rising Interest Rates
Read moreThis paper has been updated and is avaible here Over the next decade, interest payments on the debt are projected to be the fastest growing part of...
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The Greenspan Commission at 35: Time for Another Commission?
Read moreDecember 16 marks the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the National Commission on Social Security Reform – or the Greenspan Commission – which...
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Mike Murphy: 10 Things Trump Should Do to Secure Our Fiscal Future
Read moreMike Murphy, the Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post that...
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Don't Count on 4% Growth
Read moreDuring the campaign, President-elect Trump frequently claimed his policies would grow the economy by 4 percent per year, also mentioning growth...
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Johnson Introduces Social Security Solvency Legislation
Read moreChairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security introduced a bill yesterday to make Social Security sustainably...
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A Bipartisan Social Security Commission
Read moreIn 1981, the Social Security trust funds were nearly empty and President Ronald Reagan and Congressional leaders in both parties appointed the...
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CBO Releases 2016 Budget Options
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office released a report Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2017 to 2026, with 115 budget options that either increase...