On June 24, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a virtual event following the release of the 2025 Social Security and Medicare Trustees' reports, which evaluate the fiscal health of ...

On the Medicare side, the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund is now forecast to exhaust its reserves in 2033, three years sooner than projected in last year’s report. Goldwein emphasized that the ...

The federal government borrowed $1.9 trillion over the past year – July 2024 to June 2025 – based on estimates from the ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for June 2025, estimating that federal spending, a ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just published their “current policy” score of the Senate reconciliation bill, showing ...

The Senate bill includes $4.5 trillion of net tax cuts, $1.4 trillion of gross spending cuts, and $0.3 trillion of gross ...

The bill does not include any significant direct changes to Social Security and Medicare, since the reconciliation Byrd rule ...

The House is set to consider the Senate-passed reconciliation bill. Below we outline 15 major problems with the Senate-passed bill.

The latest Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would likely add roughly $4 trillion to the national debt, including interest. 1 The Senate bill would also violate the House ...

As it currently stands, the Senate reconciliation bill is likely to add $3.5 to $4.2 trillion to the debt through Fiscal Year (FY) 2034, based on our estimates.

Although we have not produced a full estimate of the bill, it appears to add roughly $4 trillion to the debt through 2034, including interest – which is roughly $1 trillion higher than the ...

We estimate the Senate’s direct SALT relief is roughly 10 percent larger than the House, and the combined SALT relief and Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) changes are two-thirds larger.1 If made ...