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William Hoagland: The next House speaker should learn from 2011 experience on fiscal reform
Read moreG. William Hoagland is senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He...
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CRFB Launches Ad Campaign Urging No New Borrowing for the Rest of 2022
Read moreAs lawmakers contemplate a number of tax breaks and spending increases as part of a year-end legislative package, the Committee for a Responsible...
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End-of-Year Changes Need Offsets
Read moreAs policymakers continue to negotiate a possible omnibus appropriations bill, there is also discussion of attaching a variety of revenue and mandatory...
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Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
Read moreThis paper has been updated here. The new fiscal year (FY) began on October 1, 2022, and Congress has so far enacted none of the 12 appropriations...
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CBO Releases 2022 Budget Options Report
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2023 to 2032 report this week, outlining 76 policy options and...
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Groups Urge Congress to Avoid Inflationary Medicare Spending
Read moreAs Congress considers year-end legislation , the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget joined with Employ America and Paragon Health, two...
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Maya MacGuineas: Three things Congress must do to curb our nation’s spiraling debt crisis
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently co-authored an...
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Making Trust Funds Solvent Would Substantially Reduce Debt Growth
Read moreIn July, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that federal debt held by the public would nearly double as a share of the economy over three...
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Congress Should Avoid Budget-Busting Omnibus
Read moreCongressional negotiators are apparently discussing a Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus appropriations bill of $1.65 trillion or higher, which would represent...
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Increased Year-End Health Care Spending Could Worsen Inflation
Read morePolicymakers are currently discussing a number of policy changes for potential inclusion in an end-of-year package attached to government funding that...
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Maya MacGuineas: Here’s A Blueprint For Tackling America’s Crippling National Debt
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Budget Experts Urge Congress: No New Borrowing for Remainder of 2022
Read moreToday budget experts from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Concord Coalition, Progressive Policy Institute, and R Street Institute sent...