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 ...

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

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 ...

Representatives Ben Cline (R-VA) and Jared Golden (D-ME) introduced the Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act (FCPA) today. This bill was also introduced in the Senate by Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and ...

The discretionary spending caps put in place under the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) are scheduled to expire on October 1. As lawmakers work to negotiate Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 appropriations, ...

2025-07-31-Updated 7/31/2025: The next few years will include several predictable fiscal policy deadlines, as various policies take effect, expire, or change.