"As we enter the thick of the campaign season, no one can ignore the debt issue," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which supports debt-reduction efforts. "This report is designed to inform the public on ...

“None of the numbers are ever going to be perfect and none of the best scorers in the whole city [of Washington] can ever get all this perfect,” said Maya MacGuineas, CRFB's president, who says her organization's analysis is still a work in progress.

Maya MacGuineas, the CRFB president, also directs the fiscal policy program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank. The analysis of the candidates' budget proposals is part of the CRFB's US Budget Watch project, which seeks to keep the ...

'HELPFUL START' The president's plan "is a helpful start to the much-needed discussion about how best to reform the corporate tax code," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a deficit hawk activist group.