NDD Spending Supports Key Public Services NDD programs include a wide variety of priorities such as education, public health, scientific research, infrastructure, national parks and ... Read more
In fiscal year 2019, the federal government spent $4.4 trillion, amounting to 21 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP). Of that $4.4 trillion, ... Read more
Here are the CBPP statements, papers, blog posts, and tweet threads to date on issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic; we’ll update this list as we issue more analyses. Read more
April 3, 2020: We’ve updated this post. It’s welcome news that Treasury and the IRS will use the authority that Congress gave them to automatically ... Read more
In this backgrounder, we address: the President's annual budget request, which is supposed to kick off the budget process; the congressional budget resolution — how ... Read more
The Secretary of the Treasury and IRS Commissioner should make a clear public statement that seniors and people with disabilities who receive Social Security won’t ... Read more
The bipartisan Senate COVID-19 package includes important provisions that will help mitigate the sharp economic decline now starting. The House should pass it and then Congress should begin work on another bill to address critical missing pieces. Read more
The emerging bipartisan agreement on the Senate’s economic emergency legislation contains very significant new resources to help states address their massive, immediate budget problems due ... Read more
Lawmakers must not only make low- and moderate-income people eligible for the full payments; they must also ensure that the government delivers the payments without imposing new requirements on individuals to file tax returns or fill out and submit other complex paperwork. Read more
