Based in part on new data from the Congressional Budget Office, this piece shows: The estimated federal cost of student loans ...

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

Through either legislation or new executive action, we find the incoming Administration and Congress could save up to $1.4 trillion, or up to $830 billion if certain rules are withdrawn and/or the ...

The recent release of the final Monthly Treasury Statement from the Treasury Department shows that net interes ...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget identified $700 billion of offsets ranging from limiting executive spending authority, reducing health care spending, cutting other mandatory spending, ...

The federal debt is nearly the size of the economy, and deficits are expected to exceed $1 trillion almost every year going forward. In order to help policymakers offset the cost of new spending ...

The Committee’s Board comprises some of the nation's leading budget experts, including many past heads of the House and Senate Budget Committees, the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of ...

The gross national debt of the United States reached $36 trillion yesterday, just over three months since the previous milestone was reached at the end of July, according to the U.S. Treasury. The ...

Reconciliation is a special legislative process created as part of the Budget Act of 1974. It is intended to help lawmakers make the tax and mandatory spending changes necessary to meet the levels ...