The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has updated its interactive online Social Security solvency tool, the ...

Updated projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show that tariffs enacted this year will reduce debt ...

Lawmakers should ensure that any extension of the enhanced ACA subsidies is not only fully paid for, but also reduces ...

But earlier this year, the Social Security trustees issued a dire wake-up call: they project that the trust fund that allows the program to currently pay full promised benefits will be exhausted in ...

The next few years will include several predictable fiscal policy deadlines, as various policies take effect, expire, or change. Many of the deadlines could bring additional costs if Congress acts ...

Find the latest analysis and findings on Trust Fund Solutions from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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 ...

Social Security is rapidly approaching insolvency. The retirement trust fund is seven years from exhaustion, and the theoretically combined trust funds are nine years from running out. Without ...

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today on the financial status of the programs. The Trustees find that both Social Security and Medicare are within a decade of ...

With debt approaching record levels and interest costs exploding, lawmakers should come together to enact significant deficit reduction or support a special process to do so. CBO projects that federal ...

Sources: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates mainly based on data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and U.S. Census Bureau. Although we assume these would be “minimum” ...