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A Closer Look at the Record $3.1 Trillion Deficit in FY 2020
The Treasury Department released its final Monthly Treasury Statement for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, showing a record $3.1 trillion deficit for the year...
CBO Shows "Interest" in Greater Transparency
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) took another step last week towards greater transparency when it published an interactive workbook that allows...
Maya MacGuineas: Trump and Biden must answer critical budget questions
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an...
Factchecking Tax Claims in the 2020 Election
In recent days, President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have made several competing claims about the other's tax agenda. We summarize and...
Problem Solvers Release Budget Principles
Earlier this week, the Congressional Problem Solvers Caucus , a bipartisan group of pragmatic representatives led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and...
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Commends Problem Solvers Caucus Budget Principles
The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus has approved a set of principles for addressing the national debt once we have moved past the immediate health...
Project Spotlight
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Too often, election campaigns are about telling voters what they want... -
FixUS seeks to better understand the root causes of our nation’s... -
The Campaign to Fix the Debt is a non-partisan national movement... -
Our Fiscal FactCheck series holds policymakers and candidates... -
There is a growing consensus that the budget process is broken.... -
In our series, Budgeting for the Next Generation,[*]we review federal... -
The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is a project dedicated... -
American Health Care: Rethinking the Challenges, Opportunities, and...
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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.
