Browsing: Congressional Budget Office
Caring for an entire population is expensive—caring for an aging population even more so. This is the conundrum facing the…
‘Nothing short of self-sabotage’: Watchdog warns about national debt setting new record in just 4 years
The United States is on a collision course with its own history, and about to break fiscal records in the…
American taxpayers spent half a billion dollars deploying federal troops to U.S. cities in 2025
A new report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), released Jan. 28, provides the first comprehensive accounting of the federal…
A comprehensive new report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) portrays a stark transformation of the American economy over…
More Americans will die than be born in 2030, CBO predicts—with immigrants the only source of growth
For the first time in modern history, the United States is on the brink of losing its most basic engine…
Trump’s retreats on tariffs have already wiped out $800 billion of expected deficit reduction, CBO estimates
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released new projections showing that recent rollbacks of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy…
Trump’s Social Security tax cuts could hit future generations hard and propel the program’s insolvency by 2032, research warns
Despite presidential proclamations, Social Security’s financial outlook is more troubled than ever. A new report from the Committee for a…
House GOP can’t pass Trump’s tax bill as holdouts on center and far-right push back in late-night session
House Republicans strained through a day of starts and stops trying to advance President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package,…
Congressional Budget Office digs further into ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ and now says it will raise deficit by $2.8 trillion, $441 billion more than before
The report, produced by the nonpartisan CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation, factors in expected debt service costs and finds that…
U.S. economy will be growing faster than 3% this time next year, predicts Treasury’s Bessent
A combination of pro-growth trade policies, tax cuts and deregulation will soon lead to a pickup in activity after a…












