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Today, the Board of Directors for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released an open letter calling on lawmakers to adopt a fiscal goal...

As policymakers continue to debate what’s next for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges, there has been significant confusion over how the...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for MSNBC, an excerpt of which is...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria" to discuss the ongoing...

Some lawmakers have called for increasing federal health care spending by $1.5 trillion to permanently extend the expiring enhanced Affordable Care...

The Social Security Administration announced on October 24 that beneficiaries will receive a 2.8% Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) at the start of...

The federal government raised $195 billion in customs duties in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, more than 250% of what it collected in FY 2024, according to...

Erskine Bowles, former Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and current Committee for a Responsible Federal...

On October 22, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare. The event...

With our national debt currently at 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), America has never entered any kind of economic emergency as indebted...

Before the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released economic and fiscal...

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.8 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), roughly...