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The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today on the financial status of the programs. The Trustees find that both...

The Medicare and Social Security Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the trust funds. Our report on the Social Security...

Summary Points The estimates from the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) 1 imply TCJA extension would boost average annual GDP growth to 2.1 percent...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its March 2025 Long-Term Budget Outlook, which builds off its January 2025 ten-year projections...

Discretionary 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...

On February 25, Marc Goldwein, senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, gave a presentation...

A fiscally responsible budget resolution should abide by the following principles: Set a meaningful fiscal goal with a plan to meet that goal The...

After being suspended by the Fiscal Responsibility Act in 2023, the federal debt ceiling was restored on January 2 and set to the outstanding debt...

Federal Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments are set to face an $8 billion annual reduction – more than 50 percent – in 2025, 2026...

On November 27, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Marc Goldwein, and Senior Policy...

What is Reconciliation? How do Reconciliation Instructions Work? Can a Reconciliation Bill Add to the Deficit? What is the “Byrd Rule”? What are Other...

Note: This analysis has been updated to incorporate new proposals announced by the candidates since we initially published on October 7. You can read...