CRFB Releases and Events

Moments ago, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a joint statement on the President's just- announced National Committee on Fiscal...

With the release of the President's budget yesterday, CRFB has received a ton of media coverage, including The Washington Post, Financial Times, CNN...

UPDATE: Web chat is beginning and is now live. Today at noon (9am Pacific), CRFB Policy Director Marc Goldwein will be participating in a live web...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget today applauded President Obama for proposing a specific fiscal goal in his Fiscal 2011 budget plan...

CRFB decided to fact check the exchange between President Obama and Congressman Hensarling at the Republican retreat. Here is the transcript with our...

UPDATE: We will begin Tweeting just after 9pm. Tonight CRFB is live-tweeting President Obama's State of the Union address. Join us at Twitter under...

Picking a “fiscal goal” would be a great way to get the discussion started about what policies to enact to close the budget gap. It allows...

The nation's soaring federal debt can no longer be ignored and Congress and the president must develop comprehensive plans to avoid a looming fiscal...

Update: The debate between Maya MacGuineas and Brad Delong is about to begin. See the live tweets here: https://twitter.com/BudgetHawks Maya...

Since CRFB called for a Fiscal Recovery Plan in July, a growing number of prominent economists, organizations, and opinion leaders have joined us in...

This morning on NPR’s Morning Edition one of our board members, David Walker, discussed his new book, Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and...

CRFB board member and former CBO and OMB director, Alice Rivlin, argued in Bloomberg, today, that policymakers should put a deficit-reduction plan in...