Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
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The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending
The current legislation authorizing highway and mass transit spending is scheduled to expire at the end of May, and only a few months later the...
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Updated Appropriations 101
Note: This paper has been updated here. What are appropriations? Appropriations are annual decisions made by Congress about how the federal government...
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Tax Day 2015: 10 Charts and 1 Table About Taxes
See some of these charts, with a more detailed explanation, at our blog Tax Day 2015: Charts to Explain Our Tax System
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Report: CBO's Analysis of the President’s FY 2016 Budget
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its re-estimate of the President’s FY 2016 budget, using its own economic and technical...
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The Better Budget Process Initiative: Improving the Debt Limit
For additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our Better Budget Process Initiative home page.
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Maya MacGuineas' Testimony Before the Senate Budget Committee
Update 3/16/2015: This document was updated to correct several typographical and formatting errors.
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The PREP Plan: A Permanent Fix for the Sustainable Growth Rate
On April 1 of this year, physicians face a 21 percent cut to their Medicare payments resulting from the return of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)...