Some of the nation’s largest and most important programs are financed through government trust funds that collect dedicated ...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget deficit in its M ...

Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines – Outlines the key upcoming fiscal policy deadlines lawmakers will confront, like the expiration of government funding, Fiscal Responsibility Act ...

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently released its Mid-Session Review (MSR) for the Preside ...

Government funding runs out at midnight tonight, with none of the twelve appropriations bills nor a temporary continuing resolution (CR) having been passed and signed into law.

Media CoverageTrump admin signals Congress will need to consider all options as insolvency looms in 2034 Read more ...

This is the second time that both resolutions were rejected by the Senate. On September 19, the House-passed continuing resolution failed in the Senate by a vote of 44 to 48. That same day, the upper ...

In our series, Budgeting for the Next Generation, we review federal programs for children and assess how they fare in the federal budget and the budget process. [*] Many federal programs for children ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria" to discuss the government shutdown's effect on the economy, rising nati ...

In 2001, the federal government ran a $128 billion budget surplus and was projected to pay off the national debt by 2009. Since then, the government has borrowed an additional $23 trillion, bringing ...