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Maya MacGuineas: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s Magical Budget Math
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that appeared in...
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House Budget Confirms It Takes $8 Trillion to Balance the Budget
Read moreThe Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution that advanced out of the House Budget Committee last week keeps up the recent tradition of targeting...
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Maya MacGuineas: How House Republicans Could Attract Bipartisan Support on Entitlement Savings
Read moreMaya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote a commentary that...
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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...