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House Budget Attempts to Set in Motion Savings and Process Reforms
Read moreThe Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution released yesterday contains ambitious promises of deficit reduction to balance the budget within ten...
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House Budget Would Expand War Spending Gimmick
Read moreThe Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) designation has often been used to circumvent spending limits, and the budget resolution released by House...
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Chairman Price Rolls out the FY 2017 House Budget
Read moreHouse Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) today released the FY 2017 House budget resolution to formally kick off the Congressional budget...
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Fact Sheet: How much waste, fraud, and abuse is there in Social Security?
Read more• The Social Security Trustees estimate that reducing benefits to restore solvency would require an immediate 16.4 percent benefit cut – the...
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ARCHIVE: Analysis of Donald Trump's Health Care Plan
Read moreRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently released a health care reform plan entitled “Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again.”...
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Two Committees Roll Out Mandatory Savings Package
Read moreLast week, two House Committees, Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce, released a package of bills that would reduce mandatory spending. The bills...
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Rep. Tom McClintock Proposes Changes to Improve Budget Enforcement
Read moreAs House Republicans continue to discuss the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) has recommended budget process...
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Ted Cruz's Tax Plan is a VAT
Read moreSenator Ted Cruz has repeatedly denied the claim that his 16 percent business flat tax as actually a value-added tax (VAT). Although there is...
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Event: Scoring the 2016 Presidential Tax Plans
Read moreUpdate: The event is now over, and a recording of the video will be available soon. As a part of our Fiscal FactCheck project, CRFB is hosting an...
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Marc Goldwein: Candidates' Numbers Must Add Up
Read moreMarc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a guest post that...
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Medicare to Test New Payment Models for Outpatient Drugs
Read moreProgress on policies to slow the growth of health care spending is expected to be slow in an election year, but this week, the Center for Medicare and...