Earlier this month, the President signed the 2025 reconciliation law – also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) ...

The Social Security and Medicare trust funds are only a little more than seven years from insolvency, based on ...

CMS’s efforts to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse go further. For example, CMS recently announced that they were more aggressively targeting Medicare Advantage (MA) audits through their Risk Adjustment ...

Before the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) ...

Medicare, a federal health insurance program, provides coverage primarily to people aged 65 and older. Its Hospital Insurance trust fund finances just Medicare Part A, which covers inpatient care in ...

2025-07-31-Updated 7/31/2025: The next few years will include several predictable fiscal policy deadlines, as various policies take effect, expire, or change.

The recently-enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will increase borrowing by $4.1 trillion through 2034 on a conventional basis, according to new ...

With the national debt on track to exceed record levels and recently made worse by the enactment of OBBBA, Congress should ...

Sources: House Appropriations Committee, Senate Appropriations Committee, CBO estimate of Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (first FY 2024 six-bill minibus), CBO estimate of Further Consolidated ...

The Senate has passed its version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 reconciliation bill – the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The table below is a comprehensive tally of each provision included in the ...

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today on the financial status of the programs. The Trustees find that both Social Security and Medicare are within a decade of ...

Some of our most important federal programs are financed through dedicated revenue sources and managed through federal trust funds. Over the next decade, these trust funds face a combined $3.6 ...