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Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released initial details of its updated Budget and Economic Outlook, accounting for enactment of the...

What are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How will this year's appropriations process be different? How...

The Biden Administration today released its first full budget, laying out its proposals for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 and the subsequent decade. The...

At a projected cost of over $300 billion this fiscal year, interest payments are a significant part of the federal budget. Net interest is currently...

President Joe Biden and the nation face perhaps the most daunting fiscal situation on record. One hundred days into his presidency, President Biden...

Congress has authorized around $6 trillion of fiscal support in response to the COVID pandemic, with a projected net cost of well over $5 trillion...

On April 13, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget policy analyst Alexander Holt testified at the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy...

Today, the Biden Administration released an abridged version of the President’s budget. This partial budget details proposed allocations and plans for...

On March 25, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the Senate Budget Committee on "Ending a Rigged Tax...

Some of the nation’s most important government programs are financed with dedicated revenue sources using federal trust funds. Four of those programs...

This year, the federal government will spend $300 billion on interest payments on the national debt. This is the equivalent of nearly 9 percent of all...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its March 2021 Long-Term Budget Outlook, confirming that the federal budget is on an...