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

In this piece, we show that over 75 years, borrowing to fund Social Security could: Add over $150 trillion to the debt when adjusted for inflation, or over $700 trillion nominally Boost debt by over ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria" to discuss the ongoing government shutdown negotiations, the unpreceden ...