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Jul 29, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

Policymakers Shouldn't Attach More Borrowing to a Debt Ceiling Increase

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Apr 14, 2021 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Burchett and Case Reintroduce RAFT Act

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Jul 26, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

A Dangerous Effort to Undermine the Work of the Congressional Budget Office

For Immediate Release When the House of Representatives considers the so-called appropriations “minibus” for fiscal year 2018, which includes funding...
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Jul 20, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

Options for Meeting the House Budget's Reconciliation Instructions

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 House budget resolution includes reconciliation instructions requiring 11 House committees to report legislation that...
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Jul 13, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Today’s CBO Report Makes Clear Just How Far the President’s Budget Is from Balance

For Immediate Release Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its own estimate of the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget. While...
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Jul 13, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Health Care| Budget Process

Maya MacGuineas: White House Video Continues Dispiriting Pattern of CBO Attacks

Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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Jul 12, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Strongly Supports the Sanford-Lee and Lee-Jones Amendments

For Immediate Release The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget strongly supports the Sanford-Lee and Lee-Jones amendments to the National...
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Jul 11, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

The Budget Resolution Should Reduce, Not Increase, the National Debt

For Immediate Release The House Budget Committee is currently working on a fiscal year 2018 Congressional budget resolution. While the budget will...
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Jul 11, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

How Committees Could Meet Reconciliation Instructions for Mandatory Savings

(Update 7/20/2017): The House Budget Committe has since released its FY 2018 budget resolution and reconciliation instructions. You can read an...
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Jun 22, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budget Process

Long-Term Budget Should Be Used to Strengthen Fiscal Responsibility, Not Avoid It

For Immediate Release A number of policymakers are advocating the use of a 20-year budget window, rather than the more traditional ten-year window,...
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May 3, 2017 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Budget Process

CRFB Explainer: Gimmicks in the FY 17 Omnibus Bill

A negotiated deal to fund the government through the rest of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 has passed the House of Representatives, with final passage...
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