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Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Read moreUpdated 1/9/2024: The President signed a continuing resolution on December 21, 2024, that runs through March 14, 2025. Lawmakers will need to pass...
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Weakening the SALT Cap Would be a Costly Mistake
Read moreAccording to press reports, policymakers are considering changes to the $10,000 state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap as part of their efforts to...
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Budget Offsets Bank
Read moreWith the national debt on course to exceed its record as a share of the economy in the next two years, interest payments on the debt surging, and
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Budget Resolution Should Provide a Plan for Realistic Debt Reduction
Read moreLawmakers intend to pursue budget reconciliation legislation in the coming months, which requires passage of a concurrent budget resolution that...
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CBO’s “Other Mandatory” Savings Options
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its Options for Reducing the Deficit, outlining 76 policy options to reduce the deficit. Most...
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Maya MacGuineas on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power"
Read moreCommittee president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg's "Balance of Power" to discuss President-elect Trump's comments on the debt...
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Debt Ceiling Q&A
Read moreAfter being suspended by the Fiscal Responsibility Act in 2023, the federal debt ceiling was restored on January 2 and set to the outstanding debt...
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Chris Towner: It’s Time To Get Serious About The Federal Budget Deficit
Read moreChris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for the Carolina Journal...
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Top 13 Fiscal Charts of 2024
Read moreIt was a busy year for fiscal policy in 2024, with a big focus on the presidential election. In addition to releasing a few major papers, we also...
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John Kasich: It’s finally time to tackle the national debt
Read moreJohn Kasich is a former governor of Ohio, former congressman representing the state, and director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
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Lawmakers Add $380 Billion to the Debt in the Final Hours of 2024
Read moreWith the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act and the American Relief Act, Congress and the President approved $1 trillion in new ten-year debt...
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Reflections on the 2024 Ed Lorenzen Fiscal Internship
Read moreBy Olabisi Omoniyi-Alake The time that I have spent working at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has been a transformative...