The Treasury Department just confirmed that spending continues to rise. The federal government has already spent $3.6 trillion from January to June of 2025 – up $142 billion from this same period last ...

On July 11, 2025  the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and Director of Health Policy Anna Bonelli submitted comments ...

On June 24, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a virtual event following the release of the 2025 Social Security and Medicare Trustees' reports, which evaluate the fiscal health of ...

The Senate bill includes $4.5 trillion of net tax cuts, $1.4 trillion of gross spending cuts, and $0.3 trillion of gross ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for June 2025, estimating that federal spending, a ...

The Senate passed its budget reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which would add over $4 trillion to the national debt through 2034 – $1 trillion more than the House-pa ...

The House is set to consider the Senate-passed reconciliation bill. Below we outline 15 major problems with the Senate-passed bill.

Yes, the economy may well enjoy a sugar-high the next couple of years, as borrowing stimulates near-term consumption. But a sugar-high won’t be sustained, it will do real damage, and often what comes ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas was recently interviewed for a new CNBC special report, "America's Deficit Reckoning," which includes discussions with a dozen e ...

The trustees overseeing the Social Security program recently announced that the source of retirement benefits for more than 62 million Americans and roughly 40% of American seniors will be insolvent ...

In addition to adding an extra $1.1 trillion to the national debt above the House bill to a total of over $4.1 trillion, the Senate-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) added a massive but ...