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.
Blue Dog Demands May Hinder House Budget Resolution
The Blue Dog coalition is pushing for further spending cuts beyond what is in the President’s and Senate’s budget proposals.
Improper Payments Are a Start--But Cuts Must Go Deeper
In an OMBlog today, OMB director Peter Orszag applauded the House's passage of the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act. Improper payments...
Paying for AMT Patches Can Take Many Forms
Last week the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad (D-ND), released his Democratic budget plan (see our analysis of the Chairman’s...
'The Most Predictable Economic Crisis We've Ever Had'
Concluding earlier this afternoon, the inaugural meeting of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform laid the...
Debt Downgrade for Greece (and Portugal)
In previous blogs, we have discussed how the three credit rating agencies have hinted that the United States needs to get its debt under control (see...
Webcast: Debt Commission Kicks Off First Meeting
The President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform kicks off today with its first meeting to discuss the country's long-term...
‘Line’ Items: Draft Edition
Budget Resolution Drafted – The NFL isn’t the only entity that made key decisions for the future last week. On Thursday the Senate Budget Committee...
Obama Signs Up for the Spending Challenge
Last week, the President said “my first priority is to figure out how can we reduce wasteful spending so that, you know, we have a baseline of the...
Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The Wall Street Journal criticized plans by Democrats to introduce...
More on Leaky Roofs
This week, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released a short piece disputing the claim that the cost of the so-called “Doc-Fix” –...
You Say You Want a Resolution
The Senate Budget Committee yesterday approved of a fiscal year 2011 budget proposal by a largely party line 12-10 vote, setting up a heated floor...
Webcast at 3pm: National Briefing on Our Budget and Economy
Be sure to join America Speaks this afternoon from 3 - 4:30 pm for a National Briefing on Our Budget and Economy. A panel of experts, including Maya...