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.

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: ...

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 ...

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

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.

How Will OBBBA Impact Growth? The recently enacted reconciliation law, OBBBA, extended or revived and expanded large parts of the 2017 TCJA and introduced new tax cuts and spending, while offsetting ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports" to discuss the impact of tariffs on the economy and independence in central bank ...

Medicaid provides health insurance to nearly 71 million people, and will cost the federal government over $650 billion this year – nearly double what it cost ten years ago. 1 This cost growth is ...

Find the latest analysis and findings on debt and deficits from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.