This November, the Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on whether a large swath of President Trump‘s tariffs are illegal or not, possibly leading to a ruling before the end of the year. The U.S.

Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 will end at midnight on September 30, and unless policymakers agree on passing all 12 appropriations bills or passing a continuing resolution (CR) before then, the federal ...

Chris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Monthly, an excerpt of which is below: ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its updated economic projections for 2025 through 2028, updated from its ...

Find the latest analysis and findings on Congressional budgets from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 will end on September 30, and Congress has so far enacted zero of the 12 full-year appropriations bills to fund the government for FY 2026. Policymakers have until midnight on ...

The Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds are only seven years from insolvency, at which point the law calls for deep across-the-board cuts in benefits. Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion ...

From September 2024 through August 2025, the federal government borrowed $1.9 trillion based on estimates from the ...

Fiscal Year 2025 will end on September 30, and none of the 12 appropriations bills to fund the government have been signed into law.

In 2001, the federal government ran a $128 billion budget surplus and was projected to pay off the national debt by 2009. Since then, the government has borrowed an additional $23 trillion, bringing ...

After two decades of uninterrupted borrowing – including three years in which deficits surpassed 10 percent of the economy – the U.S. national debt is higher as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ...