Olabisi Omoniyi-Alake is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, where she majored in Public Policy. She served as the Ed Lorenzen fiscal intern in Fall 2024. For more information about Ed ...

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

Lawmakers are considering the repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced yesterday that the Senate would vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, which passed the House in November.

The next few years will include several predictable fiscal policy deadlines that will force congressional action. Many of the deadlines could bring additional costs if Congress acts irresponsibly, or ...

Previously, on September 18, the House held a vote on a continuing resolution to extend government funding through March 28, 2025. However, that measure failed by a 202-220 vote. The appropriations ...

The following is a statement from Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: ...

Kent Conrad is a former senator, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and a director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted more than 130 people at an in-person ...

New data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that economic feedback may not cover any of the revenue loss and that TCJA extension might even add more to the debt on a dynamic basis, ...

Congressman John Spratt, a former longtime Representative from South Carolina and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, died Saturday at the age of 82.