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Potential Savings from Shrinking the Federal Workforce
Read moreThe Trump Administration has called for significant reductions to the federal workforce and has begun the process by laying off a number of federal... -
New Estimates Confirm Economic Growth Won’t Pay for Tax Cuts
Read moreThe latest estimates from third-party modelers confirm what we’ve said several times before: economic growth will not pay for tax cut extensions. New... -
CRFB Reaction to the President’s Joint Address to Congress
Read moreYesterday, President Trump laid out his economic and other policy priorities in his first address to a joint session of Congress of his second term... -
Government Shutdowns Q&A: Everything You Should Know
Read moreDiscretionary funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 will expire on March 14, and Congress has so far enacted zero of the 12 full-year appropriations bills... -
The Government Needs Funding and the Budget Needs Fixing
Read moreGovernment funding is set to expire on March 14, meaning lawmakers will need to pass – and the President will need to sign – appropriations bills for... -
Chartbook: Reconciliation 101
Read moreOn February 25, Marc Goldwein, senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, gave a presentation... -
Continued Inflation Highlights Danger of More Deficits
Read moreThe Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation — the personal consumption expenditure (PCE) index — came in at 0.3 percent in January, twice the... -
“Current Policy Baseline” Gimmick Could Explode the Debt
Read moreAs the House and Senate work to land on a concurrent budget resolution, Congress may consider trying to measure their reconciliation bills relative to... -
House Budget Passage Tees Up Trillions in Borrowing
Read moreThe House of Representatives just voted to approve its Fiscal Year 2025 budget resolution, a vehicle to allow for budget reconciliation legislation... -
Maya MacGuineas on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power"
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power" with hosts Joe Mathieu and... -
Maya MacGuineas: The Drivers of our Debt and the Empty Rhetoric of Politics Today
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Ripon Forum , an excerpt... -
House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases
Read moreThe House of Representatives will soon consider a budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, which was reported favorably out of the House Budget...