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Health Savings Can Help Pay for Reconciliation
Policymakers are continuing to negotiate the "Build Back Better Act" reconciliation package and the overall size and scope of both the tax and...
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...
Appropriations Watch: FY 2022
Updated 09/30/21: The Senate passed a so-called "clean" continuing resolution by a 65-35 vote the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 30, and the House...
Tax Policy in the Build Back Better Act
Policymakers are currently drafting reconciliation legislation to enact up to $3.5 trillion of spending and tax breaks, paid for in part by taxes on...
No Score, No Vote: House Should Not Vote on Reconciliation Without a Score
For Immediate Release Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently called for the House of Representatives to pass its reconciliation bill, the Build Back...
Q&A: Everything You Should Know About Government Shutdowns
The new fiscal year (FY) will begin on October 1, 2021, and Congress has so far enacted none of the 12 appropriations bills setting discretionary...
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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