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Sanders Takes Aim at Generic Drug Prices in Medicaid
Read moreEarlier this week, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act, a bill...
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Repairing How the Budget Treats the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreIn our recently released plan, The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending, we propose a variety of measures to support the Highway Trust Fund (HTF)...
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Discretionary Spending and the Sequester in the Final Budget Conference
Read moreThe budget resolution conference agreement has passed both the House and Senate. While we previously wrote about the conference's deficit reduction...
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Time to Close Two Social Security Loopholes
Read moreWith the Social Security trust funds facing a significant shortfall over the next 75 years and expected to run out of money within 20 years, Alicia...
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CRFB's Plan to Repair the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreWith the deadline for extending the surface transportation authorization just a few weeks away and Highway Trust Fund (HTF) bankruptcy approaching...
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The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending
Read moreThe current legislation authorizing highway and mass transit spending is scheduled to expire at the end of May, and only a few months later the...
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164 Ways to Reduce the Deficit
Read moreCRFB has released a new compendium of over 150 options to reduce mandatory spending and raise revenue. Despite declining in deficits in recent years...
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McCain Publishes "America's Most Wasted"
Read moreIn an homage to former Senator Tom Coburn's (R-OK) commitment to bringing attention to wasteful programs through his annual Wastebook and similar to...
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Budget Process in the FY 2016 Congressional Budget Resolution
Read moreDuring the consideration of the FY 2016 budget, we continually wrote about the budget process provisions in the major budget resolutions as well as...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Read moreNote: We have updated this paper, please see the latest Appropriations 101 . What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by...
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The Basics of the Budget Conference Agreement
Read moreYesterday, we discussed The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Budget Conference, where we showed how the budget conference agreement was a mixed bag...