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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.
How Much Worse are Deficit Projections?
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported a significantly bleaker fiscal picture than they had projected just last year, with debt now...
CBO Director Testifies Before House Budget Committee
CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the House Budget Committee this morning following CBO's release of the 2014 Budget and Economic...
CRFB Releases Analysis of CBO's 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office released its 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook, serving as a budget baseline for the new year. To help make...
Sources of Spending Growth in CBO's Baseline
The CBO's baseline released today shows how spending is expected to grow over time and where that growth occurs in the federal budget. In general...
CBO Shows Deteriorating Budget and Economic Projections
The Super Bowl was held last Sunday, and the Olympics are coming up in a few days, but the biggest event this week happened today as CBO released its...
Secretary Lew Talks About The Debt Limit
This morning, Secretary Lew spoke at the Bipartisan Policy Center about the imparative need to raising the debt ceiling, which has been suspended and...
Brookings to Start New Series on the Budget Process
Note: This blog has been updated to talk about the first blog post in the series. For those in the budget world, today is not just the day after the...
Three Senate Republicans Propose to Repeal and Replace Obamacare
Senators Richard Burr (R-NC), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Tom Coburn (R-OK) recently released a legislative proposal that would repeal and replace the...
Marcus: Silence on Fiscal Issues in SOTU is Regrettable
In an op-ed in the Washington Post, columnist Ruth Marcus laments the lack of discussion of fiscal issues in President Obama's State of the Union...
Line Items: State of Flux Edition
Making a Statement – President Obama gave the State of the Union address on Tuesday. While he presented an optimistic message of action to promote...
No Games With the Debt Limit
When Congress ended the government shutdown last October, they also suspended the debt ceiling through February 7th, which is now only a week away...
The Budgetary Effect of the State of the Union
While the President's 2014 State of the Union address largely eschewed talking about fiscal policy directly, it did touch on a number of proposals...