Hours before President Donald Trump is set to deliver his State of the Union address, a leading nonpartisan budget watchdog has launched a blistering critique of the administration’s economic policies, escalating a war of words with the White House over tariffs, tax cuts, and the soaring national deficit.
On Tuesday, Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), released a scathing statement warning that the president will be speaking to a nation “more indebted than it has ever been outside a war or emergency,” contradicting the fiscal victories the administration is expected to champion before a joint session of Congress on primetime television.
