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 ...

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 ...

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

This legislation is modeled off the RESILIENCE Act, introduced in October 2024 by former Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Mike Braun (R-IN) along with current Senator Mark Warner ...

With the national debt on track to exceed record levels and recently made worse by the enactment of OBBBA, Congress should ...

A Dark Day for Our Fiscal Future 2025-07-03 The House of Representatives passed the Senate reconciliation bill, sending it to the President’s desk.

The Senate passed its budget reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which would add over $4 trillion to the national debt through 2034 – $1 trillion more than the House-passed ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just published their “current policy” score of the Senate reconciliation bill, showing the bill would add about $500 billion less to the deficit than extending ...

2025-06-23-Note: the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has put together a current law score of the Senate Finance Committee tax proposals, which roughly match our numbers in this analysis.