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Erskine Bowles, former Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and current Committee for a Responsible Federal...

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

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

Before the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released economic and fiscal...

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.8 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), roughly...

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

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

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria" to discuss the...

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently released its Mid-Session Review (MSR) for the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget...

Chris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Monthly, an...

This November, the Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on whether a large swath of President Trump‘s tariffs are illegal or not, possibly leading...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its updated economic projections for 2025 through 2028, updated from its January 2025 baseline...