On October 22, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social ...

With our national debt currently at 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), America has never entered any kind of ...

It’s tough to decide what the most appalling part is of today’s announcement from the Treasury: that we surpassed an unprecedented $38 trillion in gross national debt; that we’ll likely hit the next ...

The Social Security retirement and Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust funds are approaching insolvency, with both trust ...

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.

The United States borrowed $1.8 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 according to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement from the Treasury Department. This deficit is similar to last year’s, despite an ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently joined John Kasich, former Congressman and Governor of Ohio and a member of the Committee, on the first episode of the ...

Overpayments in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program continue to be a significant problem for the federal government, and the problem may have just gotten harder to tackle. Last month, a federal ...

The Senate has also taken numerous votes on two different continuing resolutions that would extend government funding: H.R. 5371, which has passed the House and is favored by Republicans, and S. 2882, ...

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 ...