US Budget Watch 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris released a document today – the Agenda to Lower Costs for American Families – that outlines a number of proposals she...

This past weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that, if elected President, she would seek to exempt tip income from federal income taxes...

Earlier today, former President Donald Trump suggested eliminating the partial income taxation of Social Security benefits, which currently helps fund...

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...

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...

US Budget Watch 2024 is a project of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget designed to educate the public on the fiscal impact of...

Former President and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently proposed implementing a tariff of 60 percent or higher on imports...

In discussing another potential term in office, last month, former President Donald Trump declared, "we’re going to pay off our debt.” President Trump...