The United States borrowed $601 billion in the first three months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, including $143 billion in December, according to the latest ...
The resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should reduce and maintain the federal unified budget deficit at or below 3% of GDP while acknowledging that ...
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Richard Rubin highlighted an important fact: the Social Security retirement trust ...
On December 20, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), announced an agreement with the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), on ...
Momentum has been growing in support of a 3% of GDP deficit target, including bipartisan support from policy experts and business leaders concerned about the nation’s debt. And as the cosponsors of ...
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump called for increasing the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 defense budget to $1.5 trillion, rather than $1 trillion he said he previously wanted to propose. We ...
The House passed a discharge petition teeing up a vote on an extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies this week, which expired at the end of 2025. The proposal would include a ...
Under the CRFB August Adjusted Baseline, debt will reach 120% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits will rise to $2.6 ...
After 43 days, the last government shutdown ended on November 12 with a funding measure that provides full-year Agriculture, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Legislative Branch ...
Please join the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and leading health policy experts for an in-depth discussion on ways to curb rising Medicare spending and health care costs and the many ...