Trump Administration

The 119th Congress is expected to use the reconciliation process to pass legislation with a significant fiscal impact, such as extending the expiring...

The Trump Administration has called for significant reductions to the federal workforce and has begun the process by laying off a number of federal...

In their time in office, both former President Trump and President Biden approved trillions of dollars in new ten-year borrowing both for COVID...

In a recent analysis , we estimated that President Trump approved $8.4 trillion of new ten-year borrowing during his term in office, while President...

In a recent analysis, we estimated that former President Trump approved $8.4 trillion of new ten-year borrowing ($4.8 trillion excluding the CARES Act...

We recently estimated that former President Trump and current President Biden approved $8.4 trillion and $4.3 trillion of new ten-year borrowing (or...

Note: We published a more comprehensive, up-to-date comparison analysis of the amount of new ten-year borrowing approved by both Presidents Trump and...

Note: (8/30/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which updates the estimated cost...

One of the most fair and efficient ways for policymakers to raise revenue would be to close some portion of the “tax gap," or the difference between...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...