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CBO Reports $173 Billion Deficit for August
The United States borrowed over $2.7 trillion in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2021, including $173 billion in August, according to the latest...
Responsibly Raising the Debt Limit
Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the Treasury is likely to run out of extraordinary measures in October. Without...
FY 2022 Reconciliation Tracker
Last Updated: 9/27/2021 Budget reconciliation is underway ( read more about the full process here ), with House and Senate lawmakers crafting a...
Representatives Murphy and Cuellar Push for Fiscally Responsible Reconciliation
Representatives Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) and Henry Cuellar (D-TX) recently sent a letter to House majority leadership outlining principles for the...
Keeping Offsets on the Table
As lawmakers work to put together a reconciliation package that could include up to $3.5 trillion of gross spending and tax breaks, resistance has...
Biden Administration’s SNAP Increase Could Add $180 Billion to Deficits
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced it will be revising the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), used for the calculation of...
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Too often, election campaigns are about telling voters what they want... -
The Health Savers Initiative is a collaborative project of the... -
FixUS seeks to better understand the root causes of our nation’s... -
The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a non-partisan national movement... -
Our Fiscal FactCheck series holds policymakers and candidates... -
There is a growing consensus that the budget process is broken.... -
In our series, Budgeting for the Next Generation, we review federal... -
The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is a project dedicated... -
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.
