Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News, an excerpt of which is below.

Net interest on the national debt, the fastest growing part of the budget, is projected to more than double from $970 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 to $2.1 trillion by FY 2036 under ...

Federal health programs will cost over $26 trillion through 2036, under the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline, making health care the largest category of federal spending. In this piece, we ...

Amid the growing bipartisan interest in the Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act (FCPA), below are some frequently asked questions and answers about the bill. What does the bill do?

President Trump will deliver the State of the Union address this evening before a joint session of Congress. The occasion offers the President the opportunity to establish his policy agenda for the ...

First, CRFB has repeatedly touted the fiscal effects of tariffs, pointing out that they have been generating meaningful new revenue – and this soaring revenue has been one bright spot in an otherwise ...