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.
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...
CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget is Here
CBO has just released its analysis of the President's FY 2016 budget, using its own numbers and methods to re-estimate the budget. While CBO reveals...
CBO Delivers Good News for the Affordable Care Act
The latest CBO projections show a slight improvement on our fiscal situation over the previous ones made in January, and lower projected health...
CRFB Publishes Updated PREP Plan Outlining Responsible SGR Reform
In light of the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump when the most recent doc fix patch expires on March 31, yesterday we released an update to our Paying for...
CRFB's Taxpayer Receipt in USA Today
Did you know that nearly 75 dollars out of every 100 dollars in taxes paid goes to just four major areas? Monday’s USA Today front page featured data...
CBO Releases New Baseline Ahead of President's Budget Estimate
In advance of its scheduled release of an analysis of the President's budget, CBO has updated its budget projections for the next ten years. Their new...
Update: Impending Fiscal Speed Bumps
Congress approached and addressed the first impending " Fiscal Speed Bump" this week, cleanly funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with...
Rattner Testifies Before Senate Finance Committee on Tax Fairness
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on how best to achieve "tax fairness" as a part of their larger focus on tax reform. Testifying...
King v. Burwell and the Federal Budget
The Supreme Court ruling on the King v. Burwell case being argued before the Court today will have major policy and political ramifications that have...
Congress May Kick the Can Again on the Doc Fix
Repeating a story heard many times before, in a speech at a Federation of American Hospitals conference, House Ways And Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI...
CBO and BPC Predict Debt Ceiling Deadline Not Until the Fall
October or November -- that's the deadline by which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts lawmakers must increase the debt...
Financial Report of the U.S. Government Shows Bleak Picture
Every year, the Treasury Department releases the Financial Report of the United States Government, which provides a detailed picture of the government...