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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released revised recommendations for the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS...

Fiscal policy was once again at the forefront of congressional debates in 2023, giving us many opportunities to write about and illustrate the...

UPDATE (January 2024): We have published an updated analysis of this tax deal. You can find the updated analysis here . As Congress nears important...

In the first four Presidential primary debates, the GOP candidates have mentioned the deficit or debt a combined 35 times, with former United Nations...

In a recent New York Times opinion piece which keyed off a recent analysis from Karen Smith and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board...

Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Chris Towner is policy director...

So far, this year, lawmakers have enacted $1.3 trillion of ten-year debt reduction (see our debt thermometer) – the most since 2011. But policies...

The House of Representatives passed the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act yesterday with a large bipartisan majority. Within the legislation is an...

With policymakers considering supplemental appropriations for Ukraine, Israel, and other foreign policy needs, many are wondering how much of the...

In a town hall hosted by Fox News, former President Donald Trump suggested that America’s fiscal problems – and specifically Social Security’s looming...

The Senate will soon consider a bill combining President Biden's national security supplemental funding request with border security measures. The...

Vivek Ramaswamy, businessman and current GOP presidential candidate, has proposed increasing spending on national defense to at least 4 percent of...