Maya MacGuineas: Trump and Biden must answer critical budget questions
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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Mike Murphy and Steve Richardson: Our bitter polarization won’t end with the election
Mike Murphy is the director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's FixUS initiative. He recently wrote an opinion piece...
Maya MacGuineas: The debt is huge because Trump kept his promises
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 ...
Janet Yellen and Jared Bernstein: The Senate Is on Vacation While Americans Starve
Janet Yellen is a Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, a former Chair of the Feder
Dave McCurdy: Horn leading the way on fixing nation's budget
Dave McCurdy is a former Democratic member of Congress representing Oklahoma’s 4th District and member of the Committee for a Responsible
Marc Goldwein: A Way Forward on Unemployment Benefits
Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
James Jones: Pandemic Isn't an Excuse for Reckless Spending
The signature accomplishment of the Trump administration, the 2017 tax cuts, greatly reduced federal revenue. Lawmakers simultaneously increased...
Charlie Stenholm: We will have to face rising national debt
Charlie Stenholm is a senior policy advisor at Olsson Frank Weeda, P.C., and a member of the Committee for a Resonsible Federal Budget.
Eugene Steuerle: This is not your grandfather's debt problem
Now that the covid-19 crisis has produced predictions that we soon will reach a debt-to-GDP ratio previously seen only once before — during...
Tim Penny: Pandemic-related federal aid: Make it fast, but also make it prudent
The reason to maintain fiscal order during a strong economy is to make room for a robust fiscal response during times of crisis.
Looking back, it’s...