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Veterans Bill Needs Offsets
Read moreThe Senate is set to vote on the Honoring our PACT Act of 2021, which provides health and disability to veterans who may have been exposed to toxic...
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Analysis of the 2022 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial state of those programs and their respective trust funds. The...
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Analysis of the 2022 Social Security Trustees' Report
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the long-term financial state of the Social Security and Medicare...
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Social Security and Medicare Are Approaching Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds today. The Trustees find that Medicare’s...
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Trustees: Social Security and Medicare Headed for Insolvency in 13 and 6 Years
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees just released their 2022 reports on the financial status of the Social Security and Medicare programs. The...
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CBO Updates Major Trust Fund Baselines
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its projections last week on the financial status of the major trust funds for Medicare Hospital...
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Maya MacGuineas Joins C-SPAN to Discuss Deficits and the Economic Outlook
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. She discussed the latest Budget...
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Rumored Student Loan Cancellation Would Cost $230 Billion
Read morePress reports indicate that President Biden could soon announce a plan to cancel at least $10,000 in debt for the vast majority of student loan...
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Committee Co-Chair Mitch Daniels on CNBC's 'Squawk Box'
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget Co-Chair Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue University and former director of the Office of Management and...
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Debt Could Reach 125% of GDP With Irresponsible Actions
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) new budget projections find that debt will reach a record 110 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ($40.2...
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Presentation: Fiscal Policy in a Time of High Inflation
Read moreOn May 26, 2022, Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget gave a presentation to the National Economists Club on the possible...
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Analysis of CBO's May 2022 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreToday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its May 2022 Budget and Economic Outlook, its first baseline in almost a year. CBO’s new...