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Senators announce a bipartisan $908 billion COVID-19 emergency relief framework that is designed to break the partisan deadlock and bring economic relief to millions of Americans.Where: Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesWhen: 01 Dec 2020Credit: InStar/Cover Images

FixGov

Fighting fraud, waste, and abuse—COVID-19 pandemic relief expenditures

Glenn Fine

Friday, February 11, 2022

A sign announces a section of road work funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act U.S. economic stimulus plan in the Denver area September 10, 2009. The White House Council of Economic Advisers said that the $787 billion stimulus package enacted earlier this year had created as many as 1.1 million jobs by the third quarter. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES BUSINESS SOCIETY)

FixGov

Fighting fraud, waste, and abuse—the 2009 Recovery Act

Glenn Fine

Friday, February 11, 2022

The Avenue

States’ best chance for permanent broadband affordability requires action now

Blair Levin

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

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Events

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The $13 Trillion Question

Edited by David Wessel

2015

Central Banking after the Great Recession

Edited by David Wessel

2014

Presidential Pork

By John Hudak

2014

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Experts

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

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William G. Gale

The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Retirement Security Project

Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

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Ron Haskins

Senior Fellow Emeritus - Economic Studies

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Multimedia

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Up Front

How budget flexibility tools help address social determinants of health

Stuart M. Butler, Timothy Higashi, and Nehath Sheriff

Monday, October 5, 2020

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats speak to reporters after their meeting on infrastructure with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC134195ACF0

Podcast Episode

Can the administration and Congress move forward on $2 trillion infrastructure plan?

Adie Tomer

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Alberto Ramirez utilizes a communication system while underground during Urban Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2018 (ANTX18) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, U.S. March 19, 2018. Picture taken March 19, 2018. U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Rhita Daniel/Handout via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC13A748CBD0

The Federal Budget

Is Trump’s 2020 defense budget excessive?

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

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More on The Federal Budget

Brookings Federal Infrastructure Hub

February 2022

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Give IRS the tools it needs to enforce tax rules and catch cheaters

William G. Gale

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The benefits and costs of broadband expansion

Sophia Campbell, Jimena Ruiz Castro, and David Wessel

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Now is the time for a federal cloud modernization moonshot

Bill Whyman

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Floodwaters rise hours after the worst of Tropical Storm Isaias passed Crisfield, Maryland, on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. Some officials on scene said the city saw serious flooding but nothing like Hurricane Sandy in 2012.M4r 9390

We’re not ready for the next big climate disasters

David G. Victor, Sadie Frank, and Eric Gesick

Friday, May 14, 2021

Wads of U.S. Dollar banknotes are stacked in piles at the Money Service Austria company's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Reforming Congress’s Power of the Purse

Molly E. Reynolds

Lawfare Monday, May 10, 2021

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Reports

A conversation with HASC Chairman Adam Smith

The future of the defense budget

Next steps for the Army: A conversation with Under Secretary Ryan McCarthy