PAYGO Tracker: FY 2020
The first rule of getting out of a hole is to stop digging it deeper. Yet with deficits projected to exceed $1 trillion this fiscal...
PAYGO & CUTGO
President Trump Bolsters Administrative PAYGO Through Executive Order
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to identify and propose offsets whenever they propose an action that...
New House Members Stress Importance of PAYGO
A group of ten new Democratic members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to House committee chairs on Wednesday urging them to better...
Letter to Congress to Abide By PAYGO
Below is a letter from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas to all Members of Congress asking them to offset the...
Budget Changes in Proposed House Rules
House Democrats are proposing a package of rules to govern the House of Representatives in the 116th Congress. The package contains many...
Congress Should Reinstate and Strengthen PAYGO Rules
For Immediate Release
Recently, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer called for reinstating pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules...
Maya MacGuineas: An Opportunity to Improve the Tax Bill While Replacing the PAYGO Sequester
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
How PAYGO Rules Could Affect Tax Reform
Most of the discussion about rules that could prevent tax reform from increasing the deficit has focused on the Byrd Rule. Congress could get around...
Pay-as-you-go: An Important First Budget Step
Today, President Donald Trump released his first budget outline calling for an increase in defense spending. The following is a statement by...
How the House Trade Bills Abide by PAYGO
Big economic policy news came last week when lawmakers announced a bipartisan agreement (H.R. 1890) to revive Trade Promotion Authority in order to...