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Appropriations Watch: FY 2020
Updated 9/16/2019: Congress enacted legislation in August to address discretionary spending caps, which had impeded work on FY 2021 appropriations...
Eugene Steuerle: Congress is supposed to decide how the U.S. spends money. Soon, it won’t be able to.
Dr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is an Institute fellow and the Richard B. Fisher chair at the Urban Institute and a member of the Committee for a...
Sep 12, 2019 | Blog Paper Press Release Event
Factchecking and Live-Tweeting the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates
Tonight's Democratic presidential primary debate marks the third round of debates of the 2020 campaign and will surely touch on fiscal issues....
Is Spending, Not Tax Cuts, Driving the Deficit?
The House Ways and Means Committee minority recently published a blog post claiming that "spending, not tax cuts, [is] driving national deficits." It...
Tim Penny & David Minge: Debating 2020 Democrats should not ignore our exploding debt
Tim Penny is co-chair and David Minge is a board member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Both are former representatives from the...
Debt Could Reach Record Levels by 2030
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) latest budget projections point to high and rising debt under current law, but the situation is far worse if...
Project Spotlight
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American Health Care: Rethinking the Challenges, Opportunities, and... -
There is a growing consensus that the budget process is broken.... -
In our series, Budgeting for the Next Generation,[*]we review federal... -
Our Fiscal FactCheck series holds policymakers and candidates... -
FixUS seeks to better understand the root causes of our nation’s... -
The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is a project dedicated... -
The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a non-partisan national movement...
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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.
