Congress has excluded or erased over $12 trillion in deficit-increasing provisions from the five-year Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) scorecard and over $17 trillion from the ten-year scorecard between 2010, ...

The United States borrowed $2.0 trillion in the first eleven months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, including $168 billion in August, according to the latest ...

The U.S. Treasury Department released its Quarterly Refunding Documents for Q2 of Calendar Year 2026 today. These documents include information from Treasury and bond market participants about their ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power" with host Kailey Leinz to discuss President Trump’s proposed $5000 divide ...

The interest rate on the ten-year Treasury note topped 5 percent today for the first time since 2023 and – outside of 2023 – the first time since 2007.

Last night, President Trump promised to issue a $5,000 “dividend” to every adult citizen in the United States should his party retaine ...

Speaking at the Republican Midterm Convention yesterday in Dallas, Texas, President Trump floated a new proposal to “issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for ...

Over the past 12 months, total revenue was $5.4 trillion compared to $5.2 trillion over the same period prior. Spending was $7.2 trillion over the past 12 months compared to $7.1 trillion in the same ...

Last month, the 30-year bond reached a 19-year record yield of 5.3% and remain nearly that high despite the Treasury ...

As recently as 2001, debt held by the public was 32% of GDP and falling, while the federal government was running annual surpluses of about 1% to 2% of GDP. Today, debt held by the public is 100% of ...