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

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

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 ...

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.

On October 16, the chamber failed to advance, by a vote of 50 to 44, the defense spending bill that previously passed the House on July 18. On September 10, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom ...

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 ...

The national debt is on course to reach a record share of the economy under the next presidential administration, due in part to policies approved by Presidents Trump and Biden during their time in ...

The Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare programs have released their annual reports for 2023, updating the financial state of the programs’ trust funds. You can read our analysis of the ...