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 ...

Based on data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), we estimate that through FY 2034 OBBBA will increase the debt by $4 ...

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 the Medicare side, the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund is now forecast to exhaust its reserves in 2033, three years sooner than projected in last year’s report. Goldwein emphasized that the ...

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 ...

The federal government borrowed $1.9 trillion over the past year – July 2024 to June 2025 – based on estimates from the ...

The proposed rule would close a loophole that has allowed several states to get around the requirement that provider taxes redistribute Medicaid funds to a range of providers, not just the ones that ...

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