The Trump campaign plans would increase Social Security's ten-year cash shortfall by $2.3 trillion, make the program insolvent by 2031, increase Social Security's annual shortfall by 50 percent, and ...

The next President will face significant fiscal challenges upon taking office, including record debt levels, large structural ...

The U.S. Treasury Department today released the final Monthly Treasury Statement for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, confirming the budget deficit totaled $1.8 trillion. The following is a statement from Maya ...

In a recent report, “The Trump-Vance ‘Concept’ on,” Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign claims that former ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President & Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein joined C-SPAN's ...

In response to concerns over fraudulent claims over the past few years, Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) recently introduced the ...

On September 20, Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA) and Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum, rein ...

In a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee, Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, joins 10 other budget experts across the political spectrum in urgin ...

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 ...

Maya MacGuineas is the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Her areas of expertise include budget, tax, and economic policy. Through the Committee’s project, FixUS, she also ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget deficit in its Monthly Budget ...