Tom Tauke is a director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and former congressman from Iowa. He recently wrote an opinion piece in the...

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...

Pell Grant costs will exceed new funding over the next decade, based on the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline, depleting nearly all...

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...

The federal budget deficits totaled $1.6 trillion over the past 12 months, including the $73 billion June deficit released today by the Congressional...

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...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas joined Bloomberg Television's "Surveillance" with hosts Jonathan Ferro, Lisa...

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

The latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline shows that federal spending this year will be the largest it’s ever been outside a crisis – far...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released new ten-year budget and economic projections – an update from its February baseline – again...