Now that the House of Representatives has passed its version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 reconciliation bill – the ...

On the other hand, PWBM and YBL estimate OBBBA will add more to the debt on a dynamic basis than under conventional scoring.

Leon Panetta and Bill Gradison Jr. are former Members of Congress and a Co-Chair and a Director, respectively, of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. They recent wrote an opinion piece for ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated cost estimate for the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act ...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News, an excerpt of which is below.

The federal government borrowed $2.0 trillion over the past year – June 2024 to May 2025 – based on estimates from the ...

Yesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released its part of the Senate reconciliation package, which we estimate will save roughly $355 billion between fiscal ...

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that recent tariff policies would reduce deficits by $2.5 to $3 ...

Leon Panetta and Bill Gradison Jr. are former Members of Congress and a Co-Chair and a Director, respectively, of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Although the concurrent budget resolution called for the House to cut mandatory spending by $2 trillion over the next decade, ...

A deficit-financed reconciliation bill could raise Americans’ mortgage costs by thousands of dollars per year by pushing up ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced it was expanding its efforts to audit Medicare ...