Updated 4/24/26: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been shut down since February 14, due to disagreements around funding for Immigration...

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is less than seven years from insolvency, at which point beneficiaries face the prospect of a 24% benefit cut...

The Senate adopted its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget resolution last night, kicking off the reconciliation process. Unfortunately, the budget is about...

Interest costs will exceed $1 trillion this year and have nearly tripled from $345 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. By FY 2036, the Congressional...

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced five bills this week to close tax loopholes, improve tax...

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

On April 2 the Administration issued a proclamation adjusting tariffs on imports of aluminum, steel, and copper. Contrary to the initially reported...

On March 26, 2026, the House Budget Committee held a hearing titled “The Best Metric to Reverse the Curse: A 3% Deficit-to-GDP Path to Fiscal...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased a massive 0.9% in March, driven largely by rising energy prices, and is up 3.3% over the past year – putting...

On April 8, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Boomerang: Wealth, Retirement, and the Generational Divide. This Trust Fund...