House Members Promote a Bipartisan Framework for Budget Reforms
A bipartisan group of 60 lawmakers, led by Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA) and Jodey Arrington (R-TX), released a letter to House leadership this...
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What's in the $3 Trillion HEROES Act?
Updated on 6/3/2020 to reflect CBO's estimate of the HEROES Act.
Families First Coronavirus Response Act Will Cost $192 Billion
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scored the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), the second of three packages...
Congress Increasingly Fails to Budget
The Congressional budget process calls for an annual budget resolution to make explicit the tradeoffs between discretionary spending, direct spendi
Bill Advances to Combat Improper Payments
Congress recently passed a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) to improve efforts to identify and reduce improper payments acros
Support for TRUST Act Grows
The Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act, or the TRUST Act, was introduced last fall on a bipartisan basis in both chambers of Congress to...
Policymakers Added $2.2 Trillion to the Debt in 2019
With Congress finishing up appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, including additional provisions that will add
Burchett, Case, and Womack Introduce RAFT Act
One way to begin addressing our unsustainable fiscal situation is to
Case and Womack Introduce Sustainable Budget Act
Building on bipartisan momentum for addressing our un
Bipartisan Group Introduces TRUST Act
Earlier this week, Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Todd Young (R-IN), Doug Jones (D-AL), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), alongside...