PAYGO & CUTGO

The legislation to end the current government shutdown and temporarily fund the government would also wipe the current statutory PAYGO scorecard...

With our national debt currently at 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), America has never entered any kind of economic emergency as indebted...

“Pay-As-You-Go” or PAYGO rules and laws require offsets for new tax cuts and mandatory spending so they do not add to the debt. 1 Too often these...

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

With debt nearing record levels, interest payments surging, and major trust funds approaching insolvency, Congress should avoid worsening our already...

There is currently a massive $1.7 trillion balance on the statutory PAYGO scorecard for 2025. Under current law, this balance is slated to trigger a...

The Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023 re-established Administrative PAYGO (Pay-As-You-Go) – a rule requiring the executive branch to offset...

When the 117 th Congress begins in January, lawmakers in the House of Representatives can advance fiscal responsibility and better budgeting practices...

The first rule of getting out of a hole is to stop digging it deeper. With deficits and debt set to reach unprecedented levels soon, lawmakers risk...