New data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that economic feedback may not cover any of the revenue loss and that TCJA extension might even add more to the debt on a dynamic basis, ...
Having passed zero appropriations bills on time and another zero by the end of the fiscal year, Congress is currently operating under a continuing resolution that expires December 20th, at whic ...
The United States borrowed $622 billion in the first two months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, including $365 billion in the month of November, according to the latest ...
In order for the reconciliation process to begin, the House and Senate must pass a concurrent budget resolution that includes a deficit reduction or cost target for relevant committees. Each committee ...
Extending the individual and estate provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) expiring at the end of next year without offsets would add $3.9 trillion ($4.5 trillion with interest) to defici ...
The House of Representatives will soon vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, legislation which would repeal Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset ...
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 federal debt is nearly the size of the economy, and deficits are expected to exceed $1 trillion almost every year going forward. In order to help policymakers offset the cost of new spending ...
In May, CBO released an update to its Budget and Economic Outlook, showing cumulative deficits from 2014 to 2023 of $6.3 trillion and debt reaching 73.6 percent of GDP in 2023. We have also updated ...