Maya MacGuineas: America's fiscal crisis is worsening. Everyone should take note. Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

On October 22, 2025, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Savings the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare, an in-person event encompassing a wide-ranging ...

It requires significant tax revenue to fund the federal government. Yet the federal tax code has not been reformed in over 30 years, and faces many problems – including that it is littered with ...

The federal government has been operating under a shutdown since the beginning of the month. Although the government continues many of its core functions during a shutdown, many federal employees are ...