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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.
House and Senate Move Forward on FY 2018 Appropriations
The appropriations season is moving forward before Congress has passed a budget. Below, we explain how that can happen. Typically, Congress is...
Maya MacGuineas: Take It from a Fiscal Hawk: Raise the Debt Ceiling
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
Maya MacGuineas: 31 Years Later, Tax System Stuck in the 'Danger Zone'
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
CBO: Drug Importation Saves $1 Billion Per Year
A recently overlooked part of the health reform debate has been how to control rising costs. One way to do so would be to lower the price of...
Trustees' Report Confirms Medicare Cannot Be Ignored Much Longer
Though health care has been a hot topic in Washington this year, Medicare has been conspicuously absent from the debate despite being the largest...
Comparing "Repeal and Replace" Bills
Note (7/27/17): This blog has been updated to reflect the Congressional Budget Office's score of a hypothetical "skinny repeal" bill with additional...
Scoring "Skinny Repeal"
Update (7/27/2017): This analysis is now out of date. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a score of a hypothetical "skinny repeal" bill...
Mike Murphy: House Budget Rightfully Recognizes Threat of Oversized Debt
Mike Murphy, the Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote an op-ed that is...
$200 Billion in Mandatory Savings Should Not Be Too Difficult
One of the debates preceding the House Budget resolution was whether the resolution should call for $200 billion of mandatory savings. This week's...
CBO's Score of the Latest Senate Health Bill
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated score of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA). This version includes...
Options for Meeting the House Budget's Reconciliation Instructions
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 House budget resolution includes reconciliation instructions requiring 11 House committees to report legislation that...
Resources on the Evolving Health Care Debate
With the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) losing support in the Senate on Monday evening, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced...