The legislation to end the current government shutdown and temporarily fund the government would also wipe the current ...

The House is preparing to vote on a Continuing Resolution-Minibus appropriations bill which passed the Senate on Monday.

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.74 trillion between November 2024 and October 2025 according to estimates from the ...

Instead, policymakers should enact a clean CR to re-open the government. Then they should work to pass appropriations bills. Any sequester relief, like any ACA subsidy extension, should be fully ...

President Trump proposed paying a dividend of “at least $2,000 a person” with new tariff revenue in a post on Truth S ...

Medicare pays physicians in traditional fee-for-service through the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), which sets specific payment amounts for more than 10,000 procedures, tests, and imaging codes ...

Today, the Board of Directors for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget issued an open letter calling on lawmakers ...

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 ...

The gross national debt of the United States reached $38 trillion yesterday, according to the U.S. Treasury. This comes little more than two months after the gross debt reached $37 trillion in ...

Social Security is rapidly approaching insolvency. The retirement trust fund is seven years from exhaustion, and the theoretically combined trust funds are nine years from running out. Without ...

Some of the nation’s largest and most important programs are financed through government trust funds that collect dedicated revenues and then distribute those funds. This includes Social Security’s ...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its final conventional score of the recently-enacted reconciliation bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). CBO estimates that the ...