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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Setting the Benchmark: Reforms to Budget Baseline Rules
Read moreBudget baselines are among the most important – but widely misunderstood – elements of budgeting and policymaking. The budgetary impact of a given...
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What CBO Says About the House Obamacare Replacement
Read moreUpdate (3/21/2017): These numbers are relevant for the original version of the American Health Care Act. An amended version was released on March 20...
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House ACA Replacement Would Accelerate Medicare Insolvency
Read moreEarlier this year, we released three principles for responsible "Obamacare" Repeal and Replace. I
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What's in the GOP Obamacare Replacement Bill?
Read moreUpdate (3/21/2017): This description is relevant for the original version of the American Health Care Act. An amended version was released on March 20...
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How Much Does the House GOP Tax Plan Cost?
Read moreThe tax reform conversation so far has mostly focused on House Republicans' "Better Way" Blueprint released last summer (we explain the plan in detail...
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JCT: ACA Repeal Will Cut Taxes by At Least $600 Billion
Read moreIn light of the House GOP releasing their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare"), the Joint Committee on Taxation...
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CRFB Co-Chair Leon Panetta Tells Face the Nation We Must “Put Everything on the Table”
Read moreCRFB Co-Chair Leon Panetta was on Face the Nation on CBS this Sunday. Among a variety of topics, the former Secretary of Defense, Director of the...
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Cutting the Smallest and Slowest Growing Part of the Budget
Read morePresident Trump's March budget release will reportedly increase defense spending next year by $54 billion and cut non-defense spending by the same...
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Gene Steuerle: Before We Reform Tax Policy, We Need to Know What Is Working
Read moreCongress and President Trump are embarking on what is likely to be a major rewrite of the federal income tax code.
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Reforming Health Care Tax Exclusion
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, issued the following statement in response to reports that House...
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10 Ideas to Improve the House GOP Obamacare Replacement
Read moreLast week, a draft House GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare") was leaked to several outlets, and some reports...
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Has Debt Gone Down By $12 Billion Since Trump Took Office?
Read moreOn Twitter, President Trump claimed the national debt decreased by $12 billion during his first month in office, as opposed to increasing during...