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.
Assuming Costs Away Doesn’t Make SGR Deal Free
Now that we have shown that the "doc fix" proposal in the House will likely add to the debt in the longer term – refuting a key argument for not fully...
Senate Budget Joins the House on Irresponsible War Spending
There was a lot of discussion in the run-up to the release of the Senate budget about disputes within the Republican caucus over defense spending. The...
SGR Plan Will Likely Increase, Not Reduce, Long-Term Debt
Note: The analysis below is based on an earlier version of the SGR plan, which has since been adjusted to include modestly larger offsets and – more...
Chairman Enzi Debuts FY 2016 Senate Budget
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has released his FY 2016 budget resolution, which prescribes $5.1 trillion of spending cuts to reach...
Spending and Revenue in the FY 2016 House Budget
House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) released his FY 2016 budget yesterday, outlining a framework that would significantly reduce the debt...
House Budget Sets Dangerous Precedent for War Spending
One of the most important functions of budget resolutions is to set the spending limits for the coming fiscal year. At first glance, the House budget...
An Overview of the FY16 House Republican Budget
This morning, House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price released his FY 2016 budget proposal, "A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America." The budget...
What the Wall Street Journal Gets Wrong on the SGR
This weekend, The Wall Street Journal announced its support for the permanent Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) replacement currently being negotiated in...
Support Grows for Fiscally Responsible Doc Fix
As doc fix discussions continue in Congress, three opinion pieces recently declared support for fully offsetting the cost of a replacement for the...
The Debt Ceiling Returns...and 10 Ways to Reform It
The federal government will reach its second Fiscal Speed Bump today, as the debt ceiling will be reinstated after having been suspended since last...
Maya MacGuineas Testifies in Front of Senate Budget Committee
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified last Wednesday in front of the Senate Budget Committee for a...
Our Analysis of CBO's Estimate of the President's Budget is Here
We've released our analysis of CBO's estimate of the President's budget, breaking down the report and its supplementary data in less than six pages...