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Budget Issues Abound in the Senate Defense Authorization

Update: The Reed amendment was rejected in floor consideration by a 46-51 vote . The Senate is currently considering the National Defense...

$12 Billion Cures Bill Advances in House

Update: This blog was updated on June 30 to reflect a CBO estimate published on June 23. Our original estimate was $13 billion, based on staff...

House Set to Target Deficit-Reducing Parts of ACA

Update (6/12/15): A new CBO score estimates that repealing IPAB will cost $7.1 billion over ten years, with all of the cost recorded after 2021. The...

Sanders Takes Aim at Generic Drug Prices in Medicaid

Earlier this week, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act, a bill...

164 Ways to Reduce the Deficit

CRFB has released a new compendium of over 150 options to reduce mandatory spending and raise revenue. Despite declining in deficits in recent years...

Let the Cadillac Tax Drive...Down Deficits and Health Care Spending

A group of House Democrats introduced a bill yesterday to repeal the tax on high-cost health insurance plans, commonly known as the "Cadillac tax,"...

The Post-SGR Budget Outlook

Lawmakers cleared their second Fiscal Speed Bump of the year - the expiration of the one-year "doc fix" - earlier this month, scuttling the...

Update: Fiscal Speed Bumps

Congress sped through this year's second and third " Fiscal Speed Bumps " in March, ignoring the return of the statutory debt limit (though the hard...