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 ...

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 recently appeared on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports" to discuss the latest inflation reports, President Trump's trade negotiations ...

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

This legislation is modeled off the RESILIENCE Act, introduced in October 2024 by former Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Mike Braun (R-IN) along with current Senator Mark Warner ...

Note: This blog was updated on 8/4/25 to reflect CBO's newly-released estimates of the permanent cost of certain expiring tax provisions in OBBBA. The recently-enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act ...

A Dark Day for Our Fiscal Future 2025-07-03 The House of Representatives passed the Senate reconciliation bill, sending it to the President’s desk.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just published their “current policy” score of the Senate reconciliation bill, showing the bill would add about $500 billion less to the deficit than extending ...

2025-06-23-Note: the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has put together a current law score of the Senate Finance Committee tax proposals, which roughly match our numbers in this analysis.

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today on the financial status of the programs. The Trustees find that both Social Security and Medicare are within a decade of ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated cost estimate for the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) today, projecting that the bill would add over $2.4 trillion to primary ...