The legislation to end the current government shutdown and temporarily fund the government would also wipe the current ...

The House is preparing to vote on a Continuing Resolution-Minibus appropriations bill which passed the Senate on Monday.

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.74 trillion between November 2024 and October 2025 according to estimates from the ...

Instead, policymakers should enact a clean CR to re-open the government. Then they should work to pass appropriations bills. Any sequester relief, like any ACA subsidy extension, should be fully ...

President Trump proposed paying a dividend of “at least $2,000 a person” with new tariff revenue in a post on Truth S ...

Maya MacGuineas: America's fiscal crisis is worsening. Everyone should take note. Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece ...

The Senate may soon vote on resolutions to repeal the national emergencies that the Trump Administration has utilized to put in place significant tariffs on most countries around the world.

Social Security is rapidly approaching insolvency. The retirement trust fund is seven years from exhaustion, and the theoretically combined trust funds are nine years from running out. Without ...

Some of the nation’s largest and most important programs are financed through government trust funds that collect dedicated revenues and then distribute those funds. This includes Social Security’s ...

The White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released a report today claiming the Senate’s proposed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would generate $2.1 to $2.3 trillion of ...