But earlier this year, the Social Security trustees issued a dire wake-up call: they project that the trust fund that allows the program to currently pay full promised benefits will be exhausted in ...

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.74 trillion between November 2024 and October 2025 according to estimates from the ...

The legislation to end the current government shutdown and temporarily fund the government would also wipe the current ...

The House is preparing to vote on a Continuing Resolution-Minibus appropriations bill which passed the Senate on Monday.

In this piece, we show that over 75 years, borrowing to fund Social Security could: Add over $150 trillion to the debt when adjusted for inflation, or over $700 trillion nominally Boost debt by over ...

The next few years will include several predictable fiscal policy deadlines, as various policies take effect, expire, or change. Many of the deadlines could bring additional costs if Congress acts ...

President Trump proposed paying a dividend of “at least $2,000 a person” with new tariff revenue in a post on Truth S ...

Instead, policymakers should enact a clean CR to re-open the government. Then they should work to pass appropriations bills. Any sequester relief, like any ACA subsidy extension, should be fully ...

The federal government raised $195 billion in customs duties in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, more than 250% of what it collected in FY 2024, according to the final Monthly Treasury Statement of FY 2025.

Notes: Deficit impact for disputes of the FY 1996 shutdowns were over seven years rather than a decade. Shutdowns only include those where operations were affected for more than one business day.