Anne Vorce

Anne Vorce, director of the New America Foundation's Fiscal Roadmap Project, says she thinks that the financial reform plan proposed by Sen. ...

... says Anne Vorce, an economist at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan Washington group pushing for taming the budget deficit. ...

Project Director, Fiscal Roadmap Project, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget; Policy Director, Fiscal Policy Program

Anne L. Vorce is the Project Director for the Fiscal Roadmap Project of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), which is housed at the New America Foundation, and the Policy Director for the Fiscal Policy Program of the New America Foundation. She is responsible for providing policy… more

In our previous release (President Obama's FY2010 Budget), we discussed the broad fiscal impact of the FY2010 Budget Blueprint. We commended the President for having a specific fiscal goal, honestly budgeting for expected costs, and for providing offsets for many of the new policies he supports. However, we expressed strong concern that the budget included items in the baseline (such as AMT patches, Medicare patches, and the renewal of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts), as a way to avoid paying for

Yesterday, the Senate passed its version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by a vote of 61 to 37. Differences between the House and Senate are being worked out in a conference committee.

In total, the House bill costs roughly $820 billion over ten and a half years, while the Senate bill costs $838 billion. Although similar in size, the two stimulus bills contain a number of important differences. The Senate version relies more on tax cuts and… more

The Fiscal Roadmap Project was created to help policymakers navigate the serious economic and fiscal challenges facing the country.

Currently, fiscal policy is being shaped in a haphazard way: bailing out a firm here, letting another firm go bankrupt there; attaching conditions to a company bailout, writing a check to another company without strings attached. These are not ordinary times.