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Senator Lummis Introduces Sustainable Budget Act
Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) recently introduced the Sustainable Budget Act with Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Rounds (R-SD...
Erskine Bowles and Henry Paulson: Biden should embrace a carbon tax
Erskine Bowles served as Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998 and is a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
CBO Reports $225 Billion Deficit for April
For Immediate Release The Federal government ran a budget deficit of $225 billion in April, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO),...
Kinzinger and Phillips Call for a Bipartisan Commission to Address the Deficit
Representatives Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Dean Phillips (D-MN) recently introduced a joint resolution to establish a National Committee on Fiscal...
COVID Relief Lifted Personal Income to Record Levels
Of the $5.9 trillion ($5.2 trillion net) of enacted COVID relief, we estimate $3.6 trillion was committed or disbursed over the one-year period...
The Nation's Upcoming Fiscal Challenges
President Joe Biden and the nation face perhaps the most daunting fiscal situation on record. One hundred days into his presidency, President Biden...
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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