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Maya MacGuineas Joins CNN to Discuss Healing Political Divisions
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on CNN to discuss how President-Elect Joe Biden can work to...
Our Top 20 Charts of 2020
2020 was a busy year for fiscal policy, which gave us ample opportunities to conduct substantive policy analyses using charts and tables. This year...
Would $2,000 Stimulus Checks Go to Six-Figure Households?
The House approved the CASH Act Monday to increase recently enacted stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 per person. Some of those hesitant about the...
How Much Would $2,000 Checks Cost?
With the enactment of the Response & Relief Act yesterday, policymakers in both parties have called for expanding recovery rebates from $600 per...
Appropriations Watch: FY 2021
Updated 12/28/2020: The House passed a combined omnibus appropriations bill and COVID-19 relief package on Monday, Dec. 21 by votes of 327 to 85 and...
The Response & Relief Act Would Support the Economic Recovery
President Trump is yet to sign the year-end bill that contains the Coronavirus Response & Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and accompanying...
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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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.