From September 2024 through August 2025, the federal government borrowed $1.9 trillion based on estimates from the ...

Fiscal Year 2025 will end on September 30, and none of the 12 appropriations bills to fund the government have been signed into law.

As Congress considers the possibility of a second reconciliation bill, lawmakers should ensure it reduces deficits rather ...

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Medicaid provides health insurance to nearly 71 million people, and will cost the federal government over $650 billion this ...

The White House’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) expects much more robust growth, but also a similar pattern. CEA expects ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports" to discuss the impact of tariffs on the economy and independence in central bank ...

It would take roughly $7.5 trillion of deficit reduction over the next decade to bring the deficit down to 3 percent of GDP by 2035, and $9 trillion to hold debt to 100 percent of Gross Domestic ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria" to discuss revenue from President Trump's tariffs and Treasury Secretary ...

Several times a year, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) releases its “baseline” projections of future spending, revenue, deficits, and debt. In addition, the President and Congress ...