Blog
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Time to Get to Work on a Highway Trust Fund Solution
Lawmakers have many potential options to address the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund. With the President expected to sign a two-month extension of...
Richmond Fed Releases Bailout Barometer
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has updated their “ Bailout Barometer,” which measures the total financial sector liabilities that have a...
Congressional Double-Take on Revenue
The Congressional budget resolution proposes to bring the budget into balance by reducing spending $5.3 trillion over the next decade while keeping...
Reps. Carney and Renacci Release Bill Improving Budget Process
This week, Representatives John Carney (D-DE) and Jim Renacci (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve the budget process. The Budget Integrity...
Sanders Takes Aim at Generic Drug Prices in Medicaid
Earlier this week, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act, a bill...
Marc Goldwein: Feds Warn Transit Agencies About Funding Cut Off
Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a guest post that...
Four Takeaways from the Solutions Initiative Plans
The Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative III produced five different fiscal plans that would improve the current long-term budget outlook. We...
Repairing How the Budget Treats the Highway Trust Fund
In our recently released plan, The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending, we propose a variety of measures to support the Highway Trust Fund (HTF)...
Time to Close Two Social Security Loopholes
With the Social Security trust funds facing a significant shortfall over the next 75 years and expected to run out of money within 20 years, Alicia...
Discretionary Spending and the Sequester in the Final Budget Conference
The budget resolution conference agreement has passed both the House and Senate. While we previously wrote about the conference's deficit reduction...
CRFB's Plan to Repair the Highway Trust Fund
With the deadline for extending the surface transportation authorization just a few weeks away and Highway Trust Fund (HTF) bankruptcy approaching...
164 Ways to Reduce the Deficit
CRFB has released a new compendium of over 150 options to reduce mandatory spending and raise revenue. Despite declining in deficits in recent years...