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Blog | September 2021
Blog | September 2021
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
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Sep 27, 2021
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Budget Process
FY 2022 Reconciliation Tracker
Last Updated: 12/20/2021 Budget reconciliation is underway (read more about the full process here), with House and Senate lawmakers crafting a...
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Sep 23, 2021
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Health Care
Limiting the Cost of Medicare Expansion
As Congress negotiates proposals for Medicare benefit expansions, it should consider ways to limit their costs by either dropping the expansions...
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Sep 22, 2021
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Budgets & Projections
Reconciliation Unlikely to Produce $600 Billion in Dynamic Revenue
Policymakers are claiming their $3.5 trillion reconciliation package will be fully paid for by counting on $600 billion of...
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Sep 22, 2021
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Taxes
Maya MacGuineas: Mind the (tax) gap: To fund new spending, people should pay the taxes they owe
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 ...
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Sep 21, 2021
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Other Spending
Five Ways to Improve the FY 2022 Reconciliation Package
Congress is attempting to enact a large and ambitious agenda of new programs through the reconciliation process. While President Biden...
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Sep 20, 2021
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Budget Process
Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2021 Introduced in the Senate
Recently, Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2021 (PGSA). The bill would...
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Sep 13, 2021
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Budget Process
Better Targeting in Reconciliation
As lawmakers negotiate the details of their reconciliation package, they will need to scale back some of their ambitions to prevent ...
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Sep 13, 2021
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Taxes
Ways and Means Proposes $1.3 Trillion of Tax Breaks, $2.3 Trillion of Tax Hikes
UPDATE (9/13/2021): The Joint Committee on Taxation has released a full score of the revenue proposals, including the revenue-raising items. The...
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Sep 10, 2021
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Taxes
SALT Cap Repeal Would Be a Costly Mistake
Recent reports indicate Congress may repeal the $10,000 cap on the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction in its $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill,...
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Sep 9, 2021
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Taxes
Closing the Stepped-Up Basis Loophole
Reconciliation should not add a penny to the national debt. As lawmakers work to craft a package with $3.5 trillion of new spending and tax...
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