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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A Dark Day for Our Fiscal Future 2025-07-03 The House of Representatives passed the Senate reconciliation bill, sending it to the President’s desk.

According to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement from the Treasury Department, federal government spending, as measured by outlays, is $142 billion higher in the first half of calendar year 2025 ...

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