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Tim Penny and Maya MacGuineas: What if they held an election and a budget process broke out?
Read moreTim Penny is co-chair of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and a former representative from Minnesota and Maya MacGuineas is president of... -
CBO Estimates Medicare Coverage of Weight-Loss Drugs
Read moreIn a much-anticipated release, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published projections estimating it would cost Medicare an additional $35 billion... -
PBM Reform on the Horizon
Read moreIn recent years, lawmakers have increasingly focused on reforms to Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) — the intermediaries owned or hired by insurance... -
The President Should Stop Borrowing Through Executive Action
Read moreThis week, a Missouri court will hear oral arguments in a case challenging the legality of President Biden‘s student debt income-driven repayment plan... -
What Would the Trump Campaign Plans Mean for Social Security?
Read moreThe Trump campaign plans would increase Social Security's ten-year cash shortfall by $2.3 trillion, make the program insolvent by 2031, increase... -
Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Introduce Employee Retention Tax Credit Repeal Act
Read moreIn response to concerns over fraudulent claims over the past few years, Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Thom Tillis (R-NC)... -
Fiscal Year 2024 Ends with $1.8 Trillion Deficit
Read moreThe U.S. Treasury Department today released the final Monthly Treasury Statement for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, confirming the budget deficit totaled $1.8... -
House Lawmakers Reintroduce Debt Ceiling Reform Legislation
Read moreOn September 20, Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA) and Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum, reintroduced the Responsible... -
Plans to Address TCJA Expirations
Read moreUPDATE (October 2024): This piece has been updated for several plans in Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s Solutions Initiative 2024 . With large parts of... -
Q: Did Trump Propose Deep Medicare Cuts? A: No
Read moreIn a recent report, “The Trump-Vance ‘Concept’ on Health Care,” Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign claims that former President... -
Bipartisan Group Urges Congress to Pay for Tax Cut Extension
Read moreIn a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee, Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, joins 10 other budget... -
Chartbook: The Fiscal Impact of the Harris and Trump Campaign Plans
Read moreOn October 16, Marc Goldwein, senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, gave a presentation...