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

Dec 14, 2016 | Budgets & Projections

The Cost of Rising Interest Rates

This paper has been updated and is avaible here Over the next decade, interest payments on the debt are projected to be the fastest growing part of...

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Dec 8, 2016 | Social Security

A Bipartisan Social Security Commission

In 1981, the Social Security trust funds were nearly empty and President Ronald Reagan and Congressional leaders in both parties appointed the...

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Dec 6, 2016 | Budget Process

Reconciliation 101

Note: We have updated this paper, please see our Updated Reconciliation 101. What is reconciliation? Reconciliation is a special legislative...

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Dec 1, 2016 | Budgets & Projections

Governing through Leadership: Steps to Secure Our Fiscal Future

A Memorandum to President-Elect Donald J. Trump TO: President-Elect Donald J. Trump FROM: ...

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Nov 3, 2016 | Budgets & Projections

A Lame Duck President in 2017?

by C. Eugene Steuerle, Maya MacGuineas, Tyler Evilsizer, and Caleb Quakenbush This report represents a joint project of the Urban-Brookings Tax...

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Oct 18, 2016 | Budgets & Projections

What Would Clinton and Trump Need to Do to Address the Debt Along with their Policy Agendas?

We recently estimated that Clinton's policies would likely add $200 billion to the debt over the next decade, while Trump’s policies...

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Sep 22, 2016 | Budgets & Projections

Promises and Price Tags: An Update

Update: On November 2, 2016, we added an appendix to this update that summarizes the policies that the candidates have released. The next...

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Sep 20, 2016 | Social Security

Sizing Up Social Security's Solvency Challenge

Social Security faces a large shortfall between scheduled benefits and dedicated revenue, and the program is currently on a path toward insolvency....

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