Importantly, the CRFB Adjusted August 2025 Baseline does not incorporate the dynamic effects from OBBBA nor other changes to ...

Social Security turns 90 today – but its retirement program is on course to be insolvent by age 97 – according to new ...

There are also a variety of health-related policy options available to offset any extension, including many outlined in our ...

With Social Security’s 90 th birthday approaching, The New York Times (NYT) published an article this week alleging “ 6 myths ...

The gross national debt of the United States reached $37 trillion yesterday according to the U.S. Treasury. Gross debt had been held roughly constant at around $36.2 trillion since January after the ...

On August 7, the Trump Administration finalized a new set of “reciprocal tariff rates” that generally range from 10 to 41 ...

The federal government borrowed $1.9 trillion over the past year – August 2024 to July 2025 – based on estimates from the ...

Pay-As-You-Go” or PAYGO rules and laws require offsets for new tax cuts and mandatory spending so they do not add to the debt ...

In a recent LA Times op-ed, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deputy Administrator Kimberly Brandt highlighted ongoing efforts to reduce Medicare fraud.

Earlier this month, the President signed the 2025 reconciliation law – also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA). The law extended and expanded the expiring portions of the 2017 tax cuts ...

2025-08-01-The appropriations process for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 has begun, with action in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports" to discuss the latest inflation reports, President Trump's trade negotiations ...