Lawmakers need to protect and build upon the thoughtful but woefully inadequate offsets in the law. And efforts to adjust or reverse any problematic offsets should be fully paid for so they don’t add ...

The Treasury Department just confirmed that spending continues to rise. The federal government has already spent $3.6 trillion from January to June of 2025 – up $142 billion from this same period last ...

Based on data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), we estimate that through FY 2034 OBBBA will increase the debt by $4 ...

On July 11, 2025  the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and Director of Health Policy Anna Bonelli submitted comments ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas was recently interviewed for a new CNBC special report, "America's Deficit Reckoning," which includes discussions with a dozen e ...

The trustees overseeing the Social Security program recently announced that the source of retirement benefits for more than 62 million Americans and roughly 40% of American seniors will be insolvent ...

On June 24, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a virtual event following the release of the 2025 Social Security and Medicare Trustees' reports, which evaluate the fiscal health of ...

The federal government borrowed $1.9 trillion over the past year – July 2024 to June 2025 – based on estimates from the ...

The proposed rule would close a loophole that has allowed several states to get around the requirement that provider taxes redistribute Medicaid funds to a range of providers, not just the ones that ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for June 2025, estimating that federal spending, a ...