Media Briefing: The Ryan Budget’s Radical Priorities — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Robert Greenstein:

Good afternoon everyone. In late January, Congressman Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, issued a sweeping proposal known as the “Roadmap For America’s Future” that would overhaul both the tax code and the nation’s biggest social programs. And it has been touted as one that restores fiscal responsibility. Today we’re releasing a major analysis of The Roadmap. This analysis is based on work by the Congressional Budget Office, an extensive new analysis of the Ryan plan’s tax provisions by the Urban Institute Brookings Tax Policy Center, and analyses of the social security provisions of an earlier version of the plan, by the Social Security Actuary. The Center’s team that conducted the analysis was led by Paul Van de Water and Jim Horney, both former Senior CBO officials who are now here at the Center on Budget and are among the city’s leading policy experts.


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