On February 18, 2026, Chris Towner, policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, gave a presentation on the February 2026 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline.
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the ...
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will expire at midnight tonight. Absent a last-minute agreement to fund DHS today, it will commence a shutdown on Monday. The other 11 ...
Over the coming decade, the vast majority of growth in federal government spending will come from just four parts of the federal budget: Social Security, health care, mandatory veterans’ programs, ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its February 2026 Budget and Economic Outlook today, updating its January 2025 baseline to account for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), tariffs, ...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook today. CBO projects that debt held by the public will surpass its record as a share of the economy in 2030 – just four ...
Join the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Policy Director, Chris Towner, for an overview of the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline report outlining projections of the budget ...