Papers
View our recurring reports, which summarize and analyze the most important regular federal budget releases and reports.
Appropriations 101
This paper has been updated here. What are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How does Congress allocate...
Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling
The federal debt ceiling was raised in December of 2021 by $2.5 trillion to $31.381 trillion, which lasted until January 19, 2023, according to a...
6 Ways to Reduce Health Care Costs
By JOSH GORDON AND DARBIN WOFFORD This journal article originally appeared in the Milken Institute Review . Here’s some old news that, depressingly...
Analysis of the 2023 Medicare Trustees' Report
The Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare programs have released their annual reports for 2023, updating the financial state of the programs’...
Analysis of the 2023 Social Security Trustees' Report
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees today released their annual reports on the financial state of the Social Security and Medicare programs over...
Marc Goldwein's House Testimony on Biden's Student Loan Policies
On March 23, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein will testify before the House...
Analysis of the President's FY 2024 Budget
The Biden Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget proposal today, outlining President Biden’s priorities over the next decade. The...
Analysis of CBO's February 2023 Budget and Economic Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook today, projecting the nation’s fiscal and economic future over...
Moving to Site Neutrality in Commercial Insurance Payments
Hospital care is the largest single source of expenditures within the health care system, driven in large part by high prices. One factor behind those...
Comments on Proposed IDR Rule
On February 9, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein submitted comments on the...
Principles for Social Security Reform
Social Security will be insolvent in as little as a decade. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the combined trust funds’ reserves will be...
Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling
This paper has been updated here. The federal debt ceiling was raised in December of 2021 by $2.5 trillion to $31.381 trillion, which is expected to...