With debt nearing record levels, interest payments surging, and major trust funds approaching insolvency, Congress should avoid worsening our already unsustainable fiscal situation during the ...

With debt nearing record levels, interest payments surging, and major trust funds approaching insolvency, Congress should avoid worsening our already unsustainable fiscal situation during the ...

Marc Goldwin is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, an excerpt of which is below.

The recent release of the final Monthly Treasury Statement from the Treasury Department shows that net interes ...

Congress is preparing to use budget reconciliation to fast-track consideration of a number of new policies, including, according to ...

Based in part on new data from the Congressional Budget Office, this piece shows: The estimated federal cost of student loans ...

In January, the House Education and Workforce Committee reported out the College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA), which would make several changes to the student loan and Pell Grant programs for a savings ...

Reconciliation is a special legislative process created as part of the Budget Act of 1974. It is intended to help lawmakers make the tax and mandatory spending changes necessary to meet the levels ...