Bill Huizenga (R-MI), and Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced the Budgeting for a Better America Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen the congressional budget process, improve fiscal transparency, and ...
The Education Department announced today that they will quadruple the auto-pay incentive to reduce a student loan borrower’s interest rate by 1 percent through 2028 if they enroll in auto-pay. We ...
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The White House recently requested an $87.6 billion supplemental appropriations package. Their request includes over $70 billion for military and related expenses, including funding for the war in ...
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee recently approved a five-year reauthorization of surface transportation programs – the BUILD America 250 Act – on a bipartisan basis. Based on our ...
The national debt is on an unsustainable path and represents a growth threat to the budget and economy. Increasingly, even former “fiscal doves” are raising concern. Kogan and Bernstein, in their ...
In its new report, “The Nation’s Fiscal Health,” the Government Accountability Office (GAO) projects the national debt will rise to 251 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2056 under a “current ...
The appropriations process for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 has begun, with action expected in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The appropriations process for FY 2026 was completed in April ...
Opinion
Maya MacGuineas: Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable. Kansas, Missouri need action
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Kansas City Star, an excerpt of which is below.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its February 2026 Budget and Economic Outlook today, updating its January 2025 baseline to account for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), tariffs, ...
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today on the financial status of the programs. The Trustees find that these programs are approaching insolvency and face large ...
Some of the nation’s largest and most important programs are financed through government trust funds that collect dedicated revenues and then distribute those funds. This includes Social Security’s ...
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