As expected, yields on short-term Treasury bills fell in kind, with the 3-month yield dropping from 4.87 percent on September ...

The House of Representatives will soon vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, legislation which would repeal Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Off ...

The federal budget deficit totaled $2.0 trillion between November 2023 and October 2024 according to estimates from the ...

The United States borrowed $255 billion in the first month of fiscal year 2025, according to the latest Monthly Budget ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently released its final Monthly Treasury Statement for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, showing ...

Site-neutral reforms represent an important intersection of sound fiscal policy, lower costs for Medicare beneficiaries, and bipartisan support to help drive momentum. Lawmakers should build upon this ...

The Department of Education announced last week a six-month extension of automatic forbearance to all borrowers enrolled in the "SAVE" income-driven repayment plan while it is being challenged in ...

In our recent analysis, The Fiscal Impact of the Harris and Trump Campaign Plans, we found that the campaign policy plans from both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump would ...

Today the Department of Education officially proposed regulations related to cancelling student debt due to “hardship.” It contains two provisions, one that cancels debt for those that the Department ...

Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Mike Braun (R-IN) recently introduced the Reassuring Economic Stability In Light of International, Economic, and Natural ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently published its projections of the “tax gap” – the difference between taxes owed to and collected by the federal government annually – for tax year 2022, as ...