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A Nation Without a Budget: Statement by Maya MacGuineas
Read moreOnce again, we are a nation without a budget. Congress has blown past its own deadline for passing a budget and is now working on appropriations bills...
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Adding Up Senator Sanders's Campaign Proposals So Far
Read moreUPDATED: Previous versions of this analysis were published on April 7 and May 9, 2016. The analysis below, updated on May 19, incorporates the...
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Alice Rivlin, Queen of Washington's Budget Wonks
Read moren the interview, Alice Rivlin discusses why she became an economist, her early years in Washington, her time directing the Congressional Budget Office...
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Gene Steuerle: Opportunity for All Isn’t Gonna Happen on This Path
Read moreOver the past 30 or 35 years, income and government spending per household have both about doubled, but working- and middle-class Americans have seen...
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Christmas for the Pentagon Is Early This Year: Statement by Maya MacGuineas
Read moreThe defense authorization bill reported by the House Armed Services Committee would funnel $23 billion of war funds to the Pentagon for basic expenses...
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House and Senate Move Forward on Appropriations
Read moreThis year's deadline has already passed without a budget resolution coming from either chamber, but the appropriations season is still moving forward...
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IRS Loses $400 Billion Per Year in Unpaid Taxes
Read moreThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released new estimates of the “tax gap” – the amount of taxes owed that go uncollected. They reveal that...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Read moreNote: This paper has been updated here . What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by Congress about how the federal...
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David Perdue & Maya MacGuineas: Repairing the budget process
Read moreSenator David Perdue, the junior senator from Georgia, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a...
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Maya MacGuineas: Paul Ryan’s Chance to Move Donald Trump on Entitlement Reform
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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Donald Trump's Treasury Buyback Plan
Read moreLast week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made waves in a CNBC interview when he seemed to indicate that he would seek to renegotiate...
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Jim McCrery and Earl Pomeroy: It's time for action on Social Security disability insurance
Read moreThe Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program provides vital benefits to 11 million workers with disabilities and their families, but much...