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Bridging Our Divides: Confronting America’s Threat from Within
The United States is threatened by a paralyzed political system and growing cultural divide. Our mounting divisions are putting our nation at risk by...
OECD: U.S. Has the Highest Deficit
The United States had the highest deficit in 2018 among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries...
Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Updated 12/13/2019: Congress did not complete action on appropriations before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, although lawmakers enacted...
Appropriations Watch: FY 2020
Updated 12/13/2019: Congress did not complete action on appropriations before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Congress enacted a continuing...
Maya MacGuineas: Utah statesmen seek to fix our most pressing problems
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...
Erskine Bowles and Henry Paulson: How to Get Americans to Love Capitalism Again
Erskine Bowles served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 1998 and is a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
Project Spotlight
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American Health Care: Rethinking the Challenges, Opportunities, and...
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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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Our Fiscal FactCheck series holds policymakers and candidates...
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FixUS seeks to better understand the root causes of our nation’s...
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The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is a project dedicated...
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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.