The House of Representatives just voted to approve its Fiscal Year 2025 budget resolution, a vehicle to allow for budget reconciliation legislation that could pave the way for $2.8 trillion of ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power" with hosts Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz to discuss the House and Senate b ...

The House of Representatives will soon consider a budget resolution for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, which was reported favorably ...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Ripon Forum, an excerpt of which is below. The nation’s fiscal situation is ...

The below analysis was written before the committee marked up the resolution and added a requirement for an additional $500 ...

The debt ceiling was reinstated on January 2, 2025. Lawmakers should lift it as soon as possible rather than relying on ...

The House Budget Committee reported out a Fiscal Year 2025 budget resolution last week that would facilitate reconciliation legislation permitting $2.8 trillion in deficit increases through 203 ...

The federal student loan program has a $1.6 trillion outstanding portfolio of loans and is projected to issue an additional trillion dollars in loans over the next decade.

The Committee’s Board comprises some of the nation's leading budget experts, including many past heads of the House and Senate Budget Committees, the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of ...

The 12-month rolling deficit – or the amount the federal government has borrowed over the past year – totaled $2.1 trillion, ...