Maya MacGuineas

Maya MacGuineas (born February 21, 1968) is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She is a frequent commentator on issues such as the federal budget, national debt, taxes, the economy, retirement policy, government reform, and health care.

Maya Carol MacGuineas
Maya MacGuineas at Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Forum on January 16, 2019.
Born (1968-02-21) February 21, 1968
Washington, D.C., USA
EducationB.A. Northwestern University, M.P.P. Harvard University[1]
OccupationPresident of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Spouse(s)Robin Jermyn Brooks [2]
ChildrenWilliam (2004), Annika (2006)[3]
Websitecrfb.org/staff-members

Born in Washington, D.C. in 1968 to D. Biard MacGuineas and Carol Kalish.[2] She graduated from Northwestern University, where she majored in economics and psychology, and she received a master's degree in public policy from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.[3]

Background

MacGuineas served briefly at the Brookings Institution early in her career, then spent two years at Paine Webber as an equity analyst on Wall Street.[4] She also advised the 2000 presidential campaign of John McCain on Social Security.[4]

She became a senior fellow and director of the Fiscal Policy Program at New America (organization).[5] At New America, she oversaw its work on the federal budget, entitlement programs, and taxes.[6]

In 2009, she did a stint on the editorial board of The Washington Post.[4] She previously served on the Board of Directors of Common Cause.[2] She also served on the Domenici-Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force.[7]

She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Penn-Wharton Budget Model.[8] She is Co-Chair of the National Budgeting Roundtable.[9]

MacGuineas also serves on the Economic Strategy Group of the Aspen Institute.[10] In addition, she is a Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.[11]

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

MacGuineas has served as president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan public policy organization dedicated to fiscal issues, since 2003.[12] The Committee has been described as a “budget watchdog” by The Hill (newspaper).[13] In 2018, she noted that she is a political independent and that the Committee is critical of both parties.[14]

Under her leadership, the Committee grew in stature as it became a prominent voice for tackling rising national debt that is projected to reach record levels as a share of the economy in the years to come. A Roll Call article stated, “the previously obscure organization, a home for former federal budget officials, has been pulled into the spotlight, speaking to what its members and supporters argue is the overriding fiscal issue of the time.”[15]

In 2012, she became head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, a project of the Committee that seeks a comprehensive and bipartisan approach to addressing rising national debt.[16][17] Business leaders, economists, and budget experts became involved with the Campaign, as well as thousands of grassroots supporters.[18]

She has testified before congressional committees on several occasions.[19][20][21] A Wall Street Journal piece described her as an “anti-deficit warrior.”[22]

FixUS

MacGuineas is also a founder of FixUS, a project of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. According to its website, “FixUS is a group of Americans united in shared concern over the divided state of our country. We believe that healing these divisions is our highest national priority, and essential to preparing our nation to face the defining challenges of the 21st century.”[23]

In April 2019, she wrote in USA Today, along with FixUS Director Mike Murphy, “In many ways our budget deficits and ever-rising debt are a symptom and symbol of the deterioration of our politics ... As a nation, we have become incapable of making tough choices or achieving bipartisan compromise. We are focused on the short term at the expense of the long term. And we reward hyper-partisanship over making progress on behalf of the American people.”[24]

An op-ed by MacGuineas in July 2019 in The Washington Post struck a similar note, “The dysfunctional budget process, the untenable debt situation and the inability to solve the most glaring budget problems — from a tax base riddled with ineffective loopholes, to Social Security, to the need to reform the debt ceiling — reflect the larger corrosive situation of today’s broken governance system.”[25]

References
  1. "Washington Life Magazine - March 2002 - Washington Weddings". Washingtonlife.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
  2. "WEDDINGS; Maya MacGuineas, Robin Brooks". The New York Times. January 13, 2002. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
  3. "Budget panel president's 'exhausting' dream job". Washington Times. December 13, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
  4. Khimm, Suzy (December 20, 2012). "Maya MacGuineas's CEO-powered Crusade Against the Deficit". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  5. Morin, Richard; Deane, Claudia (December 10, 2001). "Big Thinker. Ted Halstead's New America Foundation Has It All: Money, Brains and Buzz". Style Section. The Washington Post. p. 1.
  6. "Maya MacGuineas". NewAmerica.net. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
  7. "Bipartisan Policy Center Launches Debt Reduction Task Force". PR Newswire.
  8. "PWBM External Advisory Board". Penn Wharton Budget Model.
  9. "Members". National Budgeting Roundtable.
  10. "Maya MacGuineas - Members". Economic Strategy Group.
  11. "Maya MacGuineas". National Academy of Social Insurance.
  12. Brady, Jessica (November 14, 2011). "Maya MacGuineas in High Demand During Fiscal Debate". Roll Call. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  13. Jagoda, Naomi (October 28, 2019). "Budget watchdog group outlines Medicare for All financing options". The Hill. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  14. Elis, Niv (January 9, 2018). "Budget watch: Head of nonprofit watchdog fights with both parties". The Hill. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
  15. Krawzack, Paul (February 22, 2013). "'Hard Choices' Need to be Made on Entitlements". Roll Call. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  16. Lowrey, Annie (December 23, 2012). "A Campaign on U.S. Debt Gains Steam". The New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2017.
  17. Krugman, Paul (December 22, 2012). "Maya and the Vigilantes". The New York Times.
  18. Sahadi, Jeanne (November 29, 2012). "What is 'Fix the Debt'?". CNNMoney. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  19. "Post Tax Reform Evaluation of Recently Expired Tax Provisions". House Ways and Means Committee.
  20. "Hearing: The Budget Resolution-Content, Timeliness, and Enforcement". YouTube - Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform.
  21. "Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Ways of Funding Government: Exploring the Cost to Taxpayers of Spending Uncertainty Caused by Governing Through Continuing Resolutions, Giant Omnibus Spending Bills, and Shutdown Crises" (PDF). GovInfo.
  22. Izzo, Phil (June 1, 2009). "Secondary Sources: Health Care, Reich on GM, Borrowing - Real Time Economics". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
  23. "FixUS". FixUS.
  24. MacGuineas, Maya; Murphy, Mike (April 12, 2019). "Disastrous Record Deficits Threaten US Future Yet Barely Make a Ripple in Washington". USA Today. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  25. MacGuineas, Maya (July 19, 2019). "No budget. On the brink of default. It's a hell of a way to run a country". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 7, 2020.


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