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Can Post-Acute Care Reforms Save the Medicare Trust Fund?
Read moreThe Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will be insolvent within five years according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the...
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What We Hope to See in the President's FY 2023 Budget
Read morePresident Biden is slated to release his Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget proposal on March 28. The President's budget is meant to provide a roadmap for...
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It Should Be Easy to Offset Additional COVID Funds
Read moreThe White House has made the case for additional funding to fight the COVID-19 pandemic – in particular to purchase vaccines, treatments, testing, and...
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How Much Student Debt Has Already Been Cancelled?
Read moreNote: (8/30/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which updates the estimated cost...
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MedPAC Releases 2022 Medicare Report
Read moreThe Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its biannual report yesterday. The report includes analysis and recommendations to improve...
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What's in the FY 2022 Omnibus Bill?
Read moreLast week, Congress passed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 omnibus appropriations bill, which sets appropriations levels and allocations for the remainder...
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Time to Wind Down Remaining COVID Relief
Read moreThough most COVID relief has already been spent, several policies continue to provide ongoing financial support and could be renewed again by Congress...
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Omnibus Bill Highlights Need for Spending Caps
Read morePolicymakers are currently considering an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the federal government through the remainder of the fiscal year. The...
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CBO Reports $475 Billion Deficit for First 5 Months of Fiscal Year
Read moreThe United States borrowed $475 billion in the first five months of fiscal year 2022, with a $216 billion deficit in February, according to the latest...
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Deficit Reduction Through Reconciliation Would Be Great News
Read morePolicymakers are apparently considering developing a new reconciliation package that would focus in part on deficit reduction. The following is a...
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Heritage Foundation Releases 2022 Budget Blueprint
Read moreThe Heritage Foundation recently released their 2022 Budget Blueprint, a list of over 200 specific policy proposals that would “roll back excessive...
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Tax Experts Urge Congress To Fix IRS Backlog And Reduce The Tax Gap
Read moreToday, a diverse group of former tax officials and policy experts sent a letter to the leadership of the Appropriations Committees urging them to...