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Committee Reacts to Biden Administration’s Discretionary Budget
For Immediate Release The Biden administration today released a budget proposal for discretionary spending levels for fiscal year 2022 , which...
Virtual Event: Paying for Infrastructure
America’s infrastructure may soon be getting an upgrade. The Highway Trust Fund is currently less than a year from insolvency, and policymakers are...
CBO Reports $658 Billion Deficit for March
For Immediate Release The United States’ budget deficit for March totaled $658 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). It is the...
Event Recap: New Ideas to Lower Health Care Costs
On Wednesday, March 17, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a virtual event “ New Ideas to Lower Health Care Costs ." The event was...
Maya MacGuineas: How to think about infrastructure funding
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an...
Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
The next few years will include several predictable fiscal policy deadlines that will force congressional action. Many provisions providing COVID...
Project Spotlight
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Too often, election campaigns are about telling voters what they want...
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The Health Savers Initiative is a collaborative project of the...
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FixUS seeks to better understand the root causes of our nation’s...
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The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a non-partisan national movement...
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Our Fiscal FactCheck series holds policymakers and candidates...
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There is a growing consensus that the budget process is broken....
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In our series, Budgeting for the Next Generation, we review federal...
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The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is a project dedicated...
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American Health Care: Rethinking the Challenges, Opportunities, and...
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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public on issues with significant fiscal policy impact.