Debt & Deficits

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its February 2026 Budget and Economic Outlook, its first full ten-year baseline and economic...

The federal government has borrowed $1.6 trillion over the past 12 months based on the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...

In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, columnist George Will writes about the six paths to a fiscal disaster outlined in our recent paper, “...

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

The Washington Post’s Editorial Board recently published a piece applauding the introduction of a new resolution calling for a 3% of Gross Domestic...

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.7 trillion in Calendar Year (CY) 2025, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The...

Former Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), a board member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, published a guest essay in The New York Times...

The federal government has borrowed $1.6 trillion over the past 12 months based on new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In...

Updated projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show that tariffs enacted this year will reduce debt (including interest) by $3.0...

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.74 trillion between November 2024 and October 2025 according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office...

President Trump proposed paying a dividend of “at least $2,000 a person” with new tariff revenue in a post on Truth Social this weekend. The post...