The charts below are based on information from the Congressional Budget Office, which does nonpartisan analysis for Congress. The totals are based on fiscal year 2023. The numbers are not adjusted for ...

What are Fiscal Rules? A fiscal rule is a long-lasting constraint on fiscal policy through numerical limits on budgetary aggregates. Fiscal rules typically aim at correcting distorted incentives and ...

February is seasonally a good month for fiscal flows and this year has been no exception, the good news is that March is also ...

By not targeting major sources of spending like defense, the group has had a minimal impact on the federal budget so far but ...

New data from the Treasury Department shows the federal deficit is $318 billion larger in the first five months of fiscal ...