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.
One Month to Go for Highway Funding
In a newly released ticker, the Department of Transportation has shown that there is one month left for lawmakers to decide on funding for the Highway...
Defunding Health Care Innovation Jeopardizes the Budget
In a move that could stall promising health care delivery system reforms and drive up entitlement spending, the House Appropriations Committee last...
How Uncertain Are CBO's Long-Term Projections?
Any budget projections, including CBO's long-term outlook, are inherently uncertain, and it is important to understand how projections might change...
CBO's Outlook for Long-Term Health Care Spending
Health care spending is arguably the most important part of CBO's long-term outlook, being a key driver of our nation's growing debt over the long...
Samuelson to Lawmakers: Spread the Pain
As Washington digests this year’s CBO Long Term-Budget Outlook, Robert J. Samuelson of The Washington Post offered up his criticism of the country’s...
Waiting To Reduce Debt Makes It More Difficult
In their recently released long-term outlook, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) laid out multiple scenarios for addressing our unsustainable long...
8 Great Ways To Grapple With Gimmicks
In recent years, lawmakers have frequently used budget gimmicks to get around rules designed to maintain budgetary discipline -- if they pay attention...
Senate Budget Committee Hearing on CBO Long-Term Fiscal Outlook
Last week, CBO Director Keith Hall testified before the Senate Budget Committee on the release of CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook. Senators questioned...
ACA Repeal Could Add $5 Trillion to the Debt Within 20 Years
Much of the focus on the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) score for repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) naturally has focused on the ten-year...
Shoring Up Trust Funds Greatly Improves Debt
The main focus of CBO's long-term budget outlook is rightly on the unified budget numbers regarding spending, revenue, deficits, and debt. But it is...
New Affordable Care Act Repeal Estimate Still Shows Deficit Increase
For the first time in nearly three years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new estimate of the budgetary effect of repealing the...
Senator Flake Publishes “Jurassic Pork”
What do earmarks and dinosaurs have in common? Both are extinct, but their skeletons still remain. Last week, Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) joined the...