Under the CRFB August Adjusted Baseline, debt will reach 120% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits will rise to $2.6 ...

After 43 days, the last government shutdown ended on November 12 with a funding measure that provided full-year Agriculture, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Legislative Branch ...

Find the latest analysis and findings on our budget simulator tool from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The House is scheduled to vote today on the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act. Among other provisions, the legislation requires the government to directly fund Cost-Sharing Reductions, ...

In a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, economists Vadim Elenev, Tim Landvoigt, an ...

In the piece, Senator Romney focuses on the looming insolvency of Social Security and the dangers of our unsustainably rising ...

Given the short timeline to address the looming insolvency of Social Security – and Medicare Hospital Insurance (addressed in a companion paper) – policymakers should take any opportunity to enact ...

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 ...

The national debt is on course to reach a record share of the economy under the next presidential administration, due in part to policies approved by Presidents Trump and Biden during their time in ...

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 House of Representatives will soon vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, legislation which would repeal Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset ...