Strong economic growth will be needed to help fix the debt problems the country faces, and lawmakers should take growth ...

Although it is not certain why rates have been rising so dramatically in the last month, it’s likely that they are being fueled by higher oil prices, a hot consumer spending rep ...

Representatives Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and Scott Peters (D-CA), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum, recently sent a ...

Deficit reduction today could also prevent a fiscal crisis, where the national debt grows so high or so quickly that ...

The interest rate on the ten-year Treasury note topped 5 percent today for the first time since 2023 and – outside of 2023 – the first time since 2007.

Social Security’s retirement trust fund will be insolvent by mid-2032, according to the latest projections from the Congressiona ...

On September 21, 2026, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Co-Chair and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta testified before a hearing of the House Budget Committee on "America’s Fiscal ...

Congress has excluded or erased over $12 trillion in deficit-increasing provisions from the five-year Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) scorecard and over $17 trillion from the ten-year scorecard between 2010, ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power" with host Kailey Leinz to discuss President Trump’s proposed $5000 divide ...

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The United States borrowed $696 billion in the first four months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, including $94 billion in January, according to the latest Monthly Budget Review from the Congressional Budget ...