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Finance Committee Considers Short Term Highway Extension
Read moreAs we've been writing about various ways to improve the state of the Highway Trust Fund (HTF), the Senate Finance Committee has been discussing...
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MY VIEW: Jim Nussle
Read moreJim Nussle, Co-Chair of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007-2009...
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Sahadi Warns of Disability Insurance Insolvency
Read moreWe've written many times on the need to reform Social Security well before it becomes insolvent in the 2030s. But as Jeanne Sahadi explains in a...
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Restoring Highway Solvency by Reducing Spending
Read moreWe released a new paper, Trust or Bust: Fixing the Highway Trust Fund, which showed the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) faces a $170 billion shortfall over...
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Restoring Highway Solvency by Increasing Current Revenue
Read moreWithout a fix soon, the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) will run out of money this summer, slowing down infrastructure projects across the nation. Our recent...
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CRFB to Conferees: Care for Veterans but be Fiscally Responsible
Read moreBoth the House and Senate have passed bills reforming the VA, and a conference committee must now meet to hammer out differences between the two bills...
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Alternatives for Measuring the Federal Deficit
Read moreOne of the wonkier fiscal debates that arises from time to time concerns the accounting method used to measure the size of the budget deficit. This...
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Murphy-Corker: A Responsible Solution for Highways and an Irresponsible One for Tax Extenders
Read moreSenators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Bob Corker (R-TN) announced a proposal this week to close the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) shortfall by increasing the...
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Trust or Bust: Fixing the Highway Trust Fund
Read moreUpdate: After publication we wrote a series of blogs providing options for offsets or to bring spending and revenue in line. As well in May 2015 we...
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CBO Finds House VA Bill Could Cost More, Does Cost Less Than Senate Bill
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office today released a preliminary analysis of several sections of the House VA reform bill. Like the Senate bill that we...