The resulting budget resolution, which is a concurrent resolution and therefore not signed by the President, includes what is known as a 302 (a) allocation that sets a total amount of money for the ...

The Treasury Department just confirmed that spending continues to rise. The federal government has already spent $3.6 trillion from January to June of 2025 – up $142 billion from this same period last ...

On July 11, 2025  the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and Director of Health Policy Anna Bonelli submitted comments ...

On the Medicare side, the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund is now forecast to exhaust its reserves in 2033, three years sooner than projected in last year’s report. Goldwein emphasized that the ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for June 2025, estimating that federal spending, a ...

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

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas was recently interviewed for a new CNBC special report, "America's Deficit Reckoning," which includes discussions with a dozen e ...