This November, the Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on whether a large swath of President Trump‘s tariffs are illegal or not, possibly leading to a ruling before the end of the year. The U.S.

Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 will end at midnight on September 30, and unless policymakers agree on passing all 12 appropriations bills or passing a continuing resolution (CR) before then, the federal ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its updated economic projections for 2025 through 2028, updated from its ...

Chris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Monthly, an excerpt of which is below: ...

Find the latest analysis and findings on health care from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds are only seven years from insolvency, at which point the law calls for deep across-the-board cuts in benefits. Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion ...

How Will OBBBA Impact Growth? The recently enacted reconciliation law, OBBBA, extended or revived and expanded large parts of the 2017 TCJA and introduced new tax cuts and spending, while offsetting ...

Medicaid provides health insurance to nearly 71 million people, and will cost the federal government over $650 billion this year – nearly double what it cost ten years ago. 1 This cost growth is ...

2025-08-27-Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports" to discuss the impact of tariffs on the economy and independence in ...