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Paying for the Senate's Changes to the AHCA
Read moreSenate Republicans are continuing work on their iteration of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and press reports indicate that senators aim to make...
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Options to Help Pay For the Trump Tax Plan
Read morePresident Trump's tax reform proposal could cost $5.5 trillion over 10 years, but many of the details that might bring the price tag down have not...
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Gene Steuerle: Replacing The Individual Mandate to Buy Health Insurance: A First Step To Compromise
Read moreThe Trump Administration and congressional Republicans remain stalemated over how to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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A First Look at the CMS Estimate of the AHCA
Read moreThe Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its score of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) today...
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Price Confirms Double-Counting in President's Budget
Read moreOne source of uncertainty in the President's budget is how much savings it contains from reducing Medicaid spending. In testimony last week to the...
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Marc Goldwein on NPR's Planet Money: How to Get 3% Growth
Read moreAchieving 3 percent sustained annual growth would be incredibly difficult, yet that assumption is embedded in President Trump’s proposed budget. In an...
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Marc Goldwein: Three Smart Reforms in Trump's Budget
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Commitee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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Maya MacGuineas and Robert L. Bixby: President Trump’s budget is ‘incoherent’
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and Robert L. Bixby, executive...
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President Trump's Infrastructure Proposals, Explained
Read moreOne of the key priorities for the White House has been infrastructure, with last week declared "infrastructure week" and President Trump unveiling...
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How Much Overlap is There Between the Trump and Obama Budgets?
Read moreWe noted last year that President Obama's final budget might not be as much of a dead letter as many observers assumed. Though there was likely to be...
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Maya MacGuineas: Tough budget choices for Congress, the president
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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All the President's Budget Gimmicks
Read moreThe Trump Administration recently released its full Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget proposal, which details the President’s policies for federal spending...