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Analysis of the 2016 Social Security Trustees Report
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of each program. The projections show that both...
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Prescriptions for Controlling Health Care Costs: Statement by Maya MacGuineas on House Republican Health Care Release
Read moreHouse Republicans took an important step today in issuing their recommendations for health care cost control in the proposal they released as part of...
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Judd Gregg: The Silver Lining
Read moreGood news: There is today — right now — a bipartisan working group headed by Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) that is trying...
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Maya MacGuineas: George Voinovich's remarkable legacy of fiscal responsibility
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an opinion piece that...
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The Need for Fiscal Goals
Read moreThe House Budget Committee held a hearing on Wednesday (June 15, 2016) on budget process reform and the need for fiscal goals. CRFB president Maya...
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Maya MacGuineas: In Two Social Security Reports, Ways to Reduce Senior Poverty Without Broad Benefit Cuts
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
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Senators Cotton and Lee Propose Ideas to Strengthen SSDI
Read moreSenators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation recently to help improve the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program...
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Maya MacGuineas's Testimony on Setting a Fiscal Goal
Read moreOn June 15, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the House Budget Committee on "Setting a Fiscal Goal...
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Entitlement Reform Proposals Offered by BPC and AEI
Read moreThe Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC’s) Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings released its recommendations to improve retirement...
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CRFB Turns 35 - We Are Old Enough to Remember When...
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget was incorporated on June 10, 1981. Our 35th birthday is a good occasion to look back at some of the...
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Marc Goldwein: Alicia Munnell is wrong: Social Security needs a quick fix
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote an opinion piece...
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Welcome to the New CRFB Website
Read moreAfter months of hard work, we are welcoming vistors to our newly redesigned website. You might notice the bigger font, better images, and a...