A fiscal crisis – sometimes called a sovereign debt crisis – is a sharp economic shock or downturn caused or sparked by high ...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget submitted a statement for the record pertaining to the House Budget Committee ...

Use CRFB’s Adjusted August 2025 Baseline, which accounts for the projected impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), ...

On January 15, the Senate passed legislation that would provide full-year Commerce, Justice, and Science, Energy and Water Development, and Interior and Environment appropriations by a vote of 82 to ...

For example, the No UPCODE Act, introduced by Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), would eliminate the use of health risk assessments used to boost coding intensity and utilize two ...

The U.S. fiscal outlook is currently unsustainable. A new fiscal commission can help policymakers work on a bipartisan basis to identify the necessary tax and spending changes to help improve the ...

The Trump Great Healthcare Plan calls for funding Cost-Sharing Reductions (CSRs) under the ACA. Funding CSRs would reinstate payments to health insurance companies to cover their cost, ending “ silver ...

Today, the White House announced an indefinite pause of the collection of defaulted federal student loan debt, including through the Treasury Offset Program, which applies any tax refunds towar ...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public on issues with significant fiscal policy impact.

Medicare, a federal health insurance program, provides coverage primarily to people aged 65 and older. Its Hospital Insurance trust fund finances just Medicare Part A, which covers inpatient care in ...

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 ...