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 ...

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 ...

As policymakers continue to debate what’s next for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, there has been significant confusion over how the subsidies work, how much they cost, and why premiums are ...

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 ...

President Trump proposed paying a dividend of “at least $2,000 a person” with new tariff revenue in a post on Truth Social this weekend. The post noted that “high income people” would be excluded from ...

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.74 trillion between November 2024 and October 2025 according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The rolling deficit is $38 billion lower ...

The House is preparing to vote on a Continuing Resolution-Minibus appropriations bill that passed the Senate on Monday. The bill, if passed and signed into law, would reopen the government by ...

Today, the Board of Directors for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released an open letter calling on lawmakers to adopt a fiscal goal of bringing budget deficits down to 3% of GDP – ...