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In this episode of the AAF Exchange, AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the lame duck funding challenge, the tax reform debate, and immigration in the first 100 days.

AAF products mentioned in today’s episode:

• In “The Threat of Sticky Rental Inflation,” Holtz-Eakin discusses the Federal Reserve’s challenge of reducing shelter inflation.
• In “Biden Administration Unveils $98.4 Billion Disaster Funding Request,” Director of Fiscal Policy Jordan Haring walks through the Biden Administration’s request for supplemental emergency discretionary appropriations.
• In “Testimony on: Building on the Success of the TCJA: The 2025 Tax Policy Debate,” Holtz-Eakin discusses the tax and fiscal policy issues surrounding the sunsetting of a large portion of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) at the end of 2025.
• In “How to Build on the TCJA’s Tax Success,” AAF Board Member and former Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady and Holtz-Eakin discuss the opportunity for business taxation reform as TCJA provisions expire next year.
• In “The Fiscal Challenge and the 2025 Tax Debate,” Holtz-Eakin considers the unsustainable U.S. budget outlook and the need for tax reform.
• In “An Active End to October,” Director of Regulatory Policy Goldbeck examines the regulatory impacts and changes late last month.
• In “The Budgetary and Economic Costs of Addressing Unauthorized Immigration: Alternative Strategies,” former AAF Labor Market Expert Ben Gitis and former AAF Immigration Expert Laura Collins break down the budgetary and economic consequences of mass deportation.
• In “The Reality of Mass Deportation,” Holtz-Eakin considers the potential economic and political harms of Trump’s proposed mass deportation.

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