Based on data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), we estimate that through FY 2034 OBBBA will increase the debt by $4 ...

On July 11, 2025  the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and Director of Health Policy Anna Bonelli submitted comments ...

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 proposed rule would close a loophole that has allowed several states to get around the requirement that provider taxes redistribute Medicaid funds to a range of providers, not just the ones that ...

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 ...

According to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement from the Treasury Department, federal government spending, as measured by outlays, is $142 billion higher in the first half of calendar year 2025 ...

2025-07-11-The appropriations process for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 has begun, with action in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.