The brand new 114th Congress is at it again. Only weeks into the term, a second fiscally irresponsible change to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has...

Stronger economic growth is one possible way to reduce deficits, but it is often difficult to identify which policies produce the strongest growth...

At an event at the Center for American Progress, House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) unveiled an " Action Plan" to broadly...

Although the 114th Congress is just getting settled, it will have to move quickly to address a series of deadlines with serious policy and fiscal...

The recently adopted House rules for the 114th Congress are getting attention in the budget world mostly for their requirement that the Congressional...

Interest in increasing the gas tax appears to be heating up as policymakers realize the Highway Trust Fund is running on fumes, and an upcoming Fiscal...

This week, the House approved a rule change related to dynamic scoring. Specifically, the rule would require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and...

The 114th Congress has barely even started and House Republicans are already proposing to explicitly ignore pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules that require...

If tax reform is going to happen in the 114th Congress, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) will be a central figure as the incoming Chairman of the Finance...

This year was an eventful one for the federal budget. To explain the year's events, CRFB wrote 427 blogs, 17 papers, and created more than a hundred...