G. William Hoagland is Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In November 2025, following the longest government shutdown in modern history, Congress enacted three of the 12 appropriations bills – for Agriculture, Legislative Branch, and Military ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...