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Last week, the Department of Treasury issued guidelines for the allocations of $350 billion of direct state and local aid funds in the American Rescue...

Last month, President Joe Biden unveiled the second part of his "Build Back Better" agenda – the American Jobs Plan – focused on upgrading and...

The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession laid bare many of the needs of working families and children, as well as federal, state, and local...

Today the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched Budgeting for the Future, a suite of interactive games related to the federal budget and...

A new Ipsos poll finds that a strong majority of Americans are concerned about the national debt and want federal spending to be more balanced between...

New Interactive Tools How Would You Fix the Budget?

Between the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan, President Biden has proposed roughly $4.45 trillion of new spending and tax breaks. The...

Test Your Budget IQ - Where Do You Rank?

Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) recently introduced the Sustainable Budget Act with Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Rounds (R-SD)...

President Biden deserves credit for his actions to date on climate change.

Representatives Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Dean Phillips (D-MN) recently introduced a joint resolution to establish a National Committee on Fiscal...

Of the $5.9 trillion ($5.2 trillion net) of enacted COVID relief, we estimate $3.6 trillion was committed or disbursed over the one-year period...