The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its February 2026 Budget and Economic Outlook today, updating its ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its February 2026 Budget and Economic Outlook, its first full ten-year ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook today. CBO projects that debt held by the public will surpass its record as a share of the economy in 2030 – just four ...

The United States borrowed $696 billion in the first four months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, including $94 billion in January, ...

The federal government has borrowed $1.6 trillion over the past 12 months based on the latest estimates from the ...

Under the Medicaid program, the federal government helps finance state health care spending with a matching rate calculated based on the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP). As we’ve shown ...

Policymakers enacted the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax in 2022 to generate new revenue from low-taxed corporations. If current policymakers don’t like that tax, they should repeal and replace it ...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News, an excerpt of which is below.

Government funding will expire on January 30, 2026, at which point agencies funded under six of the 12 appropriations bills ...

The 3% resolution is led by Representatives Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and Scott Peters (D-CA), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum, as well as the group’s entire steering committee, which includes ...

This week the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its annual report required under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, summarizing the budgetary effects of legislation enacted ...

Despite a recent ice storm, over 200 people turned out for hot chocolate and health policy on January 28, 2026 for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Fourth Annual Health Solutions Su ...