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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...
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CBO Projects Record Debt, After Short Reprieve
Read moreFor Immediate Release The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook today. CBO projects high rates of inflation will...
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CBO Releases May 2022 Budget and Economic Outlook
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its May 2022 Budget and Economic Outlook, its first baseline since July 2021. Under CBO's new...
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Medicare Advantage Costs Continue to Rise
Read moreThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will receive an 8.5 percent payment...
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Adding Up Aid to Ukraine from the U.S. and the Rest of the World
Read morePolicymakers are currently considering an additional aid package to Ukraine, with $41 billion of support split roughly evenly between military aid and...