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Interest Payments in the Federal Budget
At a projected cost of over $300 billion this fiscal year, interest payments are a significant part of the federal budget. Net interest is currently...
Spending in the American Jobs Plan vs. the 2018 Senate Infrastructure Plan
Last month, President Joe Biden unveiled the second part of his "Build Back Better" agenda – the American Jobs Plan – focused on upgrading and...
Eugene Steuerle: How Existing Budgetary Commitments Could Affect President Biden’s Domestic Policy Goals
Dr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is an Institute fellow and the Richard B. Fisher chair at the Urban Institute, as well as a member of the Committee for a...
Introducing ‘Budgeting for the Future’
For Immediate Release The Committee launches new suite of online games to educate and crowdsource views on federal budget priorities A majority of...
CRFB Launches Suite of Budget Games
Today the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched Budgeting for the Future , a suite of interactive games related to the federal budget...
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.











