The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today on the financial status of the programs. The ...

The Medicare and Social Security Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the trust funds.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its dynamic score of the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (O ...

The House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would add $3 trillion to the debt through Fiscal Year (FY) 2034 as ...

The Trustees for Social Security and Medicare released their annual reports on the financial status of the programs’ respective trust funds today.

The House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would add about $3 trillion to the debt, including interest, on a ...

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the House-passed OBBBA would add roughly $3 trillion to the debt through 2034, including interest, boosting total deficits by 0.8 percent of GDP.

Although the concurrent budget resolution called for the House to cut mandatory spending by $2 trillion over the next decade, ...

The federal government borrowed $2.0 trillion over the past year – June 2024 to May 2025 – based on estimates from the ...

A deficit-financed reconciliation bill could raise Americans’ mortgage costs by thousands of dollars per year by pushing up ...

Mike Murphy is senior vice president and chief of staff at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for NC Political News, an excerpt of which is below.

Keith Hall is a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and former chief economist of the White House Council of Economic Advi ...