CRFB Releases and Events

It is now three weeks and counting until the start of FY 2014, when lawmakers will have to pass a bill funding the government or incur a shutdown...

With Congress returning to DC, eyes are turning towards the fiscal speed bumps that they will face in the fall: funding the government, raising the...

Last week, we noted that it was the 78th birthday of the Social Security program, but cautioned that reform was needed before we could count on...

CBO's recent budgetary and economic analyses of the Senate immigration bill have been making waves in the political sphere as lawmakers rush to...

Update: The video has now been posted. Today, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the Mercatus Center, and Third Way held an event...

Earlier today, CRFB took a look at two of the biggest "fiscal speed bumps" remaining for the year, the exhaustion of extraordinary measures to advert...

On May 19, the debt ceiling was reinstated as the Treasury Department began to use extraordinary measures to prevent running up against the debt limit...

On Friday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees will issue their latest report, showing the finances of the two programs and their related trust...

As a follow up to our initial reaction to CBO's estimates of the President's budget, CRFB has released a full report that breaks down the analysis...

In February, we wrote the paper " Our Debt Problems Are Far From Solved," laying out the case for putting debt on a clear downward path as a percent...

With news yesterday that the Senate might consider a bill to replace the sequester for 2013 with a drawdown of war spending, CRFB reacted in a press...

Yesterday, we took our first look at the President's FY 2014 Budget, which put forward the final White House deficit reduction offer to Speaker...