Some lawmakers have called for increasing federal health care spending by $1.5 trillion to permanently extend the expiring enhanced ...

The federal government raised $195 billion in customs duties in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, more than 250% of what it collected in ...

On October 22, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social ...

With our national debt currently at 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), America has never entered any kind of ...

The Social Security Administration announced today that beneficiaries will receive a 2.8% Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) ...

Social Security is the single largest federal spending program, providing cash benefits to 60 million seniors, disabled workers, and family members. Yet with life expectancy growing and millions of ...

The Senate may soon vote on resolutions to repeal the national emergencies that the Trump Administration has utilized to put in place significant tariffs on most countries around the world.

It’s tough to decide what the most appalling part is of today’s announcement from the Treasury: that we surpassed an unprecedented $38 trillion in gross national debt; that we’ll likely hit the next ...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget deficit in its Monthly Budget Review, projecting that the deficit totaled $1.8 trillion in FY ...

2025-10-24-Erskine BowErskine Bowles, former Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and current Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Board Member, delivered ...