On August 7, the Trump Administration finalized a new set of “reciprocal tariff rates” that generally range from 10 to 41 ...

The federal government borrowed $1.9 trillion over the past year – August 2024 to July 2025 – based on estimates from the ...

Pay-As-You-Go” or PAYGO rules and laws require offsets for new tax cuts and mandatory spending so they do not add to the debt ...

Before the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) ...

CMS’s efforts to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse go further. For example, CMS recently announced that they were more aggressively targeting Medicare Advantage (MA) audits through their Risk Adjustment ...

Earlier this month, the President signed the 2025 reconciliation law – also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas discusses tariff revenue and how President Donald Trump's tax bill will affect the deficit on 'Mornings with Maria.' ...

2025-07-31-Updated 7/31/2025: The next few years will include several predictable fiscal policy deadlines, as various policies take effect, expire, or change.

Social Security is the single largest federal spending program, providing cash benefits to 60 million seniors, disabled workers, and family members. Yet with life expectancy growing and millions of ...