COVID Pandemic

In response to concerns over fraudulent claims over the past few years, Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Thom Tillis (R-NC)...

Improper payments cost the federal government $236 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, according to testimony from the Government Accountability Office...

The pandemic-era Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERC) was designed to help businesses retain workers during the pandemic. But after low initial uptake...

The budget deficit fell by half between Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 and FY 2022, from $2.8 trillion to $1.4 trillion. While the Biden Administration has...

The White House has made the case for additional funding to fight the COVID-19 pandemic – in particular to purchase vaccines, treatments, testing, 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Note: (8/30/2022): This analysis is now out of date.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...

Though most COVID relief has already been spent, several policies continue to provide ongoing financial support and could be renewed again by Congress...

2021 was a unique year in economic history. Assisted by new COVID vaccines, accommodative monetary policy, and trillions of fiscal stimulus, the US...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently released data on state and local government spending and receipts in the third quarter of 2021...

The Biden administration recently extended the federal student loan moratorium through January 2022. Under the moratorium, most federal student loan...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently published summary statistics for the three rounds of Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) paid through early...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas joined “Mornings with Maria" on Fox Business to discuss the status of COVID...