The House Ways and Means Committee approved several bills last week aimed at reducing waste, fraud, abuse, and errors in the federal budget as well as reauthorizing demonstration authority in the ...

Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Including the Biden Administration’s new student debt cancellation plan, we estimate all recent student debt cancellation policies will cost a combined $870 billion to $1.4 trillion. That’s more than ...

Given that both Republicans and Democrats are equally to blame for our dismal fiscal situation and even more dismal outlook, lawmakers from both parties bear the responsibility to work across the ...

Congress has now kicked off this year’s “Doc Fix” process, an increasingly annual occurrence where they provide ad-hoc pay ...

This massive increase would be on top of already-significant defense spending levels. The federal government appropriated ...

The federal cost of student loan programs has exploded over the last decade, transforming the program from a money-maker under typical scoring rules to a significant money-loser, based on current ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently joined Walter Isaacson on PBS's "Amanpour and Company" to discuss America's debt problem, including the recent mileston ...

Go Banking Rates: Here’s How You May Lose $18,100 in Social Security in 2033 and What To Do About It Columbus Dispatch: Opinion | Major Social Security benefits cuts are coming up fast. Congress must ...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has updated its interactive online Social Security solvency tool, the Social Security Reformer, that lets users build their preferred solvency ...