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.

With the passage of the Fairness Act and the American Relief Act, Congress and the President approved $1 trillion in new ten-year debt in calendar year 2024 – a reversal from 20 ...

John Kasich is a former governor of Ohio, former congressman representing the state, and director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The time that I have spent working at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has been a transformative learning experience. When I began my internship, I had just graduated from the ...

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 ...

Previously, on September 18, the House held a vote on a continuing resolution to extend government funding through March 28, 2025. However, that measure failed by a 202-220 vote. The appropriations ...

The 119th Congress is expected to use the reconciliation process to pass legislation with a significant fiscal impact, such as extending the expiring portions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced yesterday that the Senate would vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, which passed the House in November. This bill would repeal the Windfall ...

Lawmakers are considering the repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Not only would this repeal unfairly expand windfall benefits by ...