Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
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Papers

View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.

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Nov 23, 2015 | Taxes

The PREP Plan: Paying for the Tax Extenders to Set Up Tax Reform

Before the end of the year, Congress will again consider renewal of the “tax extenders,” a collection of more than 50 expired tax breaks for...
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Oct 22, 2015 | Budget Process

Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling

March 2017 Note: We have updated this Q&A. A new version is available ...
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Sequester Offset Solutions (SOS) Plan

Download a 1-page summary of the plan.   Update 9/...
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Aug 25, 2015 | Budgets & Projections

Report: Analysis of CBO’s Updated Budget and Economic Outlook August 2015

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its updated budget and economic projections for the coming decade, showing that while short-...
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Fiscal FactCheck: 16 Budget Myths to Watch Out For in the 2016 Campaign

Update: The original version of this paper had a mathematical typo, saying that Medicare beneficiaries get, on average,...
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Jun 25, 2015 | Budgets & Projections

The Better Budget Process Initiative: Strengthening Statutory Budget Enforcement

For additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our...
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Jun 9, 2015 | Budgets & Projections

Avoiding Budget Gimmicks Chartbook: 2015

For additional budget process resources including specific options for reform, visit our...
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May 13, 2015 | Other Spending

The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending

The current legislation authorizing highway and mass transit spending is scheduled to expire at the end of May, and only a few months later the...
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Updated Appropriations 101

Note: We have updated this paper, please see the latest Appropriations 101...
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Apr 14, 2015 | Taxes

Tax Day 2015: 10 Charts and 1 Table About Taxes

See some of these charts, with a more detailed explanation, at our blog...

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