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In April 2019, she wrote in USA Today, along with FixUS Director Mike Murphy, “In many ways our budget deficits and ever-rising debt are a symptom and symbol of the deterioration of our politics ... As a nation, we have become incapable of making tough choices or achieving bipartisan compromise. We are focused on the short term at the expense of the long term. And we reward hyper-partisanship over making progress on behalf of the American people.”

An op-ed by MacGuineas in July 2019 in The Washington Post struck a similar note, “The dysfunctional budget process, the untenable debt situation and the inability to solve the most glaring budget problems — from a tax base riddled with ineffective loopholes, to Social Security, to the need to reform the debt ceiling — reflect the larger corrosive situation of today’s broken governance system.”

In 2012, she became head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, a project of the Committee that seeks a comprehensive and bipartisan approach to addressing rising national debt. Business leaders, economists, and budget experts became involved with the Campaign, as well as thousands of grassroots supporters.

In 2009, she did a stint on the editorial board of The Washington Post. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Common Cause. She also served on the Domenici-Rivlin Debt Reduction Task Force.

MacGuineas has served as president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan public policy organization dedicated to fiscal issues, since 2003. The Committee has been described as a “budget watchdog” by The Hill (newspaper).

MacGuineas served briefly at the Brookings Institution early in her career, then spent two years at Paine Webber as an equity analyst on Wall Street. She also advised the 2000 presidential campaign of John McCain on Social Security.

Maya MacGuineas (born February 21, 1968) is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She is a frequent commentator on issues such as the federal budget, national debt, taxes, the economy, retirement policy, government reform, and health care.

Born in Washington, D.C. in 1968 to D. Biard MacGuineas and Carol Kalish. She graduated from Northwestern University, where she majored in economics and psychology, and she received a master's degree in public policy from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.