A fiscal crisis – sometimes called a sovereign debt crisis – is a sharp economic shock or downturn caused or sparked by high levels of current or expected public borrowing. A fiscal crisis can take ...

Use CRFB’s Adjusted August 2025 Baseline, which accounts for the projected impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), new tariffs, and other legislative changes implemented since the ...

Today, the White House announced an indefinite pause of the collection of defaulted federal student loan debt, including through the Treasury Offset Program, which applies any tax refunds towar ...

The Trump Great Healthcare Plan calls for funding Cost-Sharing Reductions (CSRs) under the ACA. Funding CSRs would reinstate payments to health insurance companies to cover their cost, ending “ silver ...

The House is scheduled to vote today on the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act. Among other provisions, the legislation requires the government to directly fund Cost-Sharing Reductions, ...

As the national debt continues to climb toward record levels – totaling 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 – interest on the national debt has also risen ...

Transparency is certainly not a panacea for solving health care cost growth, and may turn out to have a limited effect on its own. But more transparency is an important step for facilitating many new ...