The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released its semiannual Fiscal Monitor report, warning that risks to the global fiscal outlook have...

Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...

The House Ways and Means Committee approved several bills last week aimed at reducing waste, fraud, abuse, and errors in the federal budget as well as...

Given that both Republicans and Democrats are equally to blame for our dismal fiscal situation and even more dismal outlook, lawmakers from both...

President Trump has requested $1.5 trillion of defense spending in his Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget request, including $1.15 trillion of base funding...

Congress has now kicked off this year’s “Doc Fix” process, an increasingly annual occurrence where they provide ad-hoc pay increases to physicians...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently joined Walter Isaacson on PBS's "Amanpour and Company" to discuss...

The 30-year Treasury bond just reached its highest yield in almost 19 years, 5.2%, and other interest rates are approaching similar highs. This week...

Senator Angus King (I-ME), joined by many of his colleagues, introduced the Stop CHEATERS Act (S. 4298) last month. The bill would provide $84 billion...

The federal government made at least $186 billion of improper payments in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, according to new Government Accountability Office...