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Marc Goldwein on CBS Evening News Plus
Read moreThe Committee's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Marc Goldwein, recently appeared on CBS Evening News Plus to discuss the current... -
Senate Current Policy Gimmick Masks $4.2 Trillion of Borrowing
Read moreOn Saturday, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released a score of the proposed Finance Committee title of the Senate reconciliation bill... -
OBBBA Would Cost More on a Dynamic Basis, Says CBO
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its dynamic score of the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), finding that the bill would... -
Social Security and Medicare Are Only 8 Years from Insolvency
Read moreThe Trustees for Social Security and Medicare released their annual reports on the financial status of the programs’ respective trust funds today. The... -
Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release 2025 Reports
Read moreNote: We have published our analyses of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Reports. The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their... -
OBBBA’s 30-Year Price Tag
Read moreThe House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would add $3 trillion to the debt through Fiscal Year (FY) 2034 as written and $5 trillion if made... -
Maya MacGuineas: Trump’s Bill is Big, But Definitely Not Beautiful
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for U.S. News and World Report, an... -
How Much Would OBBBA Pay For Itself?
Read moreThe House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would add about $3 trillion to the debt, including interest, on a conventional basis. However... -
Leon Panetta and Bill Gradison Jr.: Bipartisanship Is Key to Fiscal Responsibility
Read moreLeon Panetta and Bill Gradison Jr. are former Members of Congress and a Co-Chair and a Director, respectively, of the Committee for a Responsible... -
Senate HELP Committee Proposes $355 Billion in Offsets
Read moreYesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released its part of the Senate reconciliation package, which we... -
Maya MacGuineas: National debt is a crisis. Congress must take it seriously
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News , an... -
12-Month Rolling Deficit is $2.0 Trillion in May 2025
Read moreThe federal government borrowed $2.0 trillion over the past year – June 2024 to May 2025 – based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office...