Our Projects

Deficits are expected to total more than 6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next decade, far exceeding the level needed to stabilize or reduce the national debt. Despite this dangerous fiscal trajectory, the U.S. lacks any widely agreed-upon...

Some of our most important federal programs are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through federal trust funds. Over the next decade, these trust funds face a combined $3.6 trillion shortfall.

The Health Savers Initiative is a collaborative project of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Arnold Ventures, and West Health which works to identify bold and concrete policy proposals to make health care more affordable.

Social Security provides benefits to 70 million Americans and for 40 percent of seniors it makes up the majority of their family income. But in just seven years – when today’s 60-year-olds reach their Normal Retirement Age and today’s youngest...

The Fiscal Security Leadership Initiative aims to illuminate how the federal budget process intersects with national and international security, and how it shapes America's global standing. Through this, we expect staffers to gain a profound...

The Fiscal Security Project at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget seeks to address the intersection of fiscal policy and national security, exploring how America’s growing national debt impacts foreign policy and defense. Through this...

FixUS seeks to better understand the root causes of our nation’s growing divisions and deteriorating political system, to work with others to bring attention to these issues and the need to fix them, and to build support for necessary changes.

Capitalism is increasingly under pressure as widening income inequality, declining mobility, and fiscal unsustainability are giving rise to questions about our economic system.