Budgets & Projections

Leon Panetta and Bill Gradison Jr. are former Members of Congress and a Co-Chair and a Director, respectively, of the Committee for a Responsible...

Yesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released its part of the Senate reconciliation package, which we...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News , an...

The federal government borrowed $2.0 trillion over the past year – June 2024 to May 2025 – based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office...

Committee President Maya MacGuineas recently took part in a explainer video by the Wall Street Journal, "When Does US Debt Become Genuinely Bad?"...

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds rising debt will slow economic growth and result in lower incomes than they would be...

The Committee's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Marc Goldwein, recently appeared on CBS Evening News Plus to discuss the recent...

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that recent tariff policies would reduce deficits by $2.5 to $3 trillion through 2035...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated cost estimate for the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) today, projecting that...

Although the concurrent budget resolution called for the House to cut mandatory spending by $2 trillion over the next decade, the House-passed One Big...

If policymakers enact the House-passed reconciliation bill, they will need to find at least $17 trillion in savings to balance the budget. President...