The federal budget deficit totaled $2.0 trillion for calendar year 2024, an increase of roughly $200 billion from the ...

The United States borrowed $710 billion in the first three months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, including $85 billion in the month of December, according to the latest ...

Rather than weakening the SALT cap, lawmakers should strengthen it. Concern over the marriage penalty could be addressed by reducing the SALT cap to $5,000 for single filers or setting a new ...

As we have pointed out before, extending the various individual and estate tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) beyond their scheduled expiration at the end of 2025 is unlikely to boost ...

Committee president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg's "Balance of Power" to discuss President-elect Trump's comments on the debt ceiling, the House and Speaker's plan for a reconcili ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its Options for Reducing the Deficit, outlining 76 policy opt ...

Lawmakers intend to pursue budget reconciliation legislation in the coming months, which requires passage of a concurrent budget resolution that includes reconciliation instructions in order to ...

Chris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for the Carolina Journal, an excerpt of which is below.

It was a busy year for fiscal policy in 2024, with a big focus on the presidential election. In addition to releasing a few major papers, we also wrote our usual analyses of major budget reports and ...

The $2,000 Child Tax Credit has been the subject of frequent debate and modification. The Build Your Own Child Tax Credit tool allows users to design their own modifications to the child tax credit ...