Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News, an excerpt of which is below.

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 ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated cost estimate for the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act ...

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

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that recent tariff policies would reduce deficits by $2.5 to $3 ...

Committee President Maya MacGuineas recently took part in a explainer video by the Wall Street Journal, "When Does US Debt Become Genuinely Bad?", along with other fiscal policy experts, to explain ...

CBO projects that rising debt will also slow economic growth and boost interest rates. Over the long term, we estimate based ...

Enacting a rescissions package is a first step toward the major deficit reduction this country needs. We are borrowing nearly $2 trillion annually, on pace to hit record debt within a few years, and ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced it was expanding its efforts to audit Medicare Advantage (MA) plans’ risk adjustment payments through the Risk Adjustment Data ...

The Committee's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Marc Goldwein, recently appeared on CBS Evening News Plus to discuss the recent estimates of the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bil ...

Committee President Maya MacGuineas recently took part in a explainer video by the Wall Street Journal, "When Does US Debt Become Genuinely Bad?", along with other fiscal policy experts, t ...