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Event Recap: What's Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds?
Read moreOn September 1, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted “What’s Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.” The event...
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CBO Estimates $120 Billion from IRS Funding Boost
Read moreToday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published an estimate of the revenue effects of President Biden’s proposal to increase Internal Revenue...
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Analysis of the 2021 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the long-term financial state of those programs. The reports are the first...
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Analysis of the 2021 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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Trustees Show Limited Time to Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds. The Trustees find that Medicare’s...
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Trustees: Social Security & Medicare Approaching Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security (our analysis here) and Medicare (our analysis here) Trustees just released their annual reports for 2021 on the financial status...
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House Should Not Authorize Trillions of Borrowing
Read moreThe House is expected to vote this week on a Senate-passed budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2022 that would allow up to $1.75 trillion of borrowing...
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Comparing the Cost of Build Back Better to Other Recent Legislation
Read moreLawmakers are preparing to consider both portions of President Biden's Build Back Better agenda – the Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill and...
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It’s Time to Wind Down the Student Loan Moratorium
Read moreThe Biden administration recently extended the federal student loan moratorium through January 2022. Under the moratorium, most federal student loan...
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The Budgetary Implications of the Senate Budget Resolution
Read moreThe recently released fiscal year (FY) 2022 Senate budget resolution provides reconciliation instructions allowing for deficit increases of up to $1...
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How Much Could Build Back Better Add to the Debt, An Update
Read moreNote: with recent Administrative actions on SNAP, debt-to-GDP will be about 0.6 percent higher in all scenarios. As a result, it will now reach 107...
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Bipartisan House Group Sends Letter Calling for Process Reforms
Read moreA bipartisan group of ten members from the House of Representatives recently sent a letter to the Senate calling for the addition of budget process...