Jan 9, 2017 | Budget Process
A Long-Term Budget for Entitlements and Required Revenues
by Stuart Butler and Maya MacGuineas
This paper represents a joint project of the Brookings Institution and Committee for a Responsible Federal...
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Jan 4, 2017 | Health Care
The Cost of Full Repeal of the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” includes a number of provisions to expand health care coverage, as well as...
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...
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...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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....