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.
Maya MacGuineas: What’s Missing in the Earmark Debate
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
Mulvaney Amendment Would Limit OCO Gimmick
Strict limits on discretionary spending have made it difficult for policymakers to fund everything they want. Yet instead of making hard choices and...
House Defense Bill Draws Potential Veto
The White House issued a statement Monday saying that the President's senior advisers would recommend vetoing H.R. 4435, the annual defense...
Alan Simpson: Forget Bipartisanship – We Need Generationship
Alan Simpson, one of the chairs of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, co-wrote an op...
The Federal Financial Statement Transparency Act of 2014
Congressman Jim Renacci (R-OH) introduced the The Federal Financial Statement Transparency Act of 2014 today. This legislation would make major...
Want to Understand The Appropriations Process? This 101 Will Tell You Everything You Need to Know
Appropriations season is in full swing. The House has already passed the Legislative Branch and Military Construction-Veterans Affairs bills, while...
Appropriators Must Stay Within Spending Caps Without Gimmicks
As the Senate Appropriations Committee makes its 302(b) allocations, divvying up funding among the 12 appropriations bills, it will have to deal with...
Options for Reforming the Mortgage Interest Deduction
The mortgage interest deduction has long been targeted as a tax expenditure by advocates of tax reform. In a new paper, the Tax Policy Center's Amanda...
Rubio Proposes Retirement Program Reforms
As the Senate works this week to increase the debt, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) outlined a series of reforms to Social Security, Medicare, and retirement...
Social Security's Worsening Financial Picture Since 2011
We have already shown how both federal health care spending and revenue projections have been revised downward by $900 billion and $4.2 trillion...
Event Recap: The 2014 Fiscal Summit
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation held its 2014 Fiscal Summit today, bringing together a number of current and former policymakers, experts...
Senate Moves Forward on Increasing Deficit with Tax Extenders
The Senate is moving forward with tax extenders legislation, renewing a variety of breaks that expired at the end of last year for research, small...