This morning, the Congressional Oversight panel released a report on the use of TARP funds to bailout the auto industry, stating that the federal...

A few minutes ago, President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to discuss health care reform. Although he talked about a wide array of...

"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. Period.” That is a clear cut pledge, and a very good one...

Today, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation released a Lewin Group analysis of the current House health care reform bill (America’s Affordable Health...

REVISED: Today, CRFB issued a press release commenting on the President's statement last night on developing a trigger to ensure that any health care...

1. Health reform is first and foremost about controlling costs – There are three major problems people would like to solve through health reform: cost...

Recently, Tax Analysts released Toward Tax Reform: Recommendations for President Obama's Task Force , a collection of essays by 32 prominent tax...

Last week, we wrote about $85 billion worth of stimulus tax cuts which the Obama administration assumed as permanant in their baseline so that they...

CBO recently published new projections for the revenues and outlays for Social Security (kudos to Andrew Biggs for pointing this out). The updated...

CRFB.org has just completed a major web redesign! We encourage you to explore the entire site, along with a whole new USBudgetWatch.org and Stimulus...