NTUF’s Taxpayers’ Budget Office (TBO) promotes fiscal transparency and holds policymakers accountable to taxpayers by improving Congressional Budget Office’s cost estimates, eliminating budget gimmicks, identifying ways to reduce wasteful spending, and exposing costly perks provided to government officials.
Policy Impact
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Research
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- Ended Overseas Contingency Operations program
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- Highlighted issues with CBO baseline projections and proposed new approaches
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- Supported CBO reform bills passed into law
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- Analyzed the true costs posed to taxpayers by White House budget requests
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- Fought against pension loopholes for congressional felons
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- Examined the potential of bipartisan fiscal commissions to address deficit spending and improve budgeting practices
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- Shed light on budget offset gimmicks
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- Informed public on the fiscal impacts of executive student loan cancellation policies
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