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

It would require nearly $10 trillion of deficit reduction to stabilize debt at its current share of the economy over the next decade, according to the...

Bipartisan Fiscal Forum co-chairs Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) and Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) recently led a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)...

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...

Tom Tauke is a director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and former congressman from Iowa. He recently wrote an opinion piece in the...

Pell Grant costs will exceed new funding over the next decade, based on the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline, depleting nearly all...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...

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...

The federal budget deficits totaled $1.6 trillion over the past 12 months, including the $73 billion June deficit released today by the Congressional...

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...