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: Why is Trump's 3-percent growth target pure folly? Because math.
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
Marc Goldwein: President Trump’s Budget Defies Gravity
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
Maya MacGuineas: The CBO Report Was a Healthy Dose of Reality on Repealing Obamacare
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
CBO's Estimate of the House-Passed AHCA
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released their updated score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as passed by the House of...
Maya MacGuineas' Op-ed on the Trump Budget
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
A Quick Summary of President Trump's FY 2018 Budget
Today, President Trump released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget, the first full budget proposal of his presidency. We will publish a full analysis...
The Progressive Caucus "People's Budget"
The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) released their “ The People’s Budget: A Roadmap for the Resistance.” The budget is the first release in...
Committee Co-Chair Mitch Daniels Inducted into Order of the Rising Sun
Yesterday, the Government of Japan presented CRFB Co-Chair Mitch Daniels with the Order of the Rising Sun, one of the country’s highest honors. The...
How to Reduce Medicare Spending Without Cutting Benefits
During the 2016 presidential campaign, President Trump argued against making cuts to Social Security and Medicare. At the time, we showed that...
Factchecking Trump on Taxes
This week's issue of The Economist featured an interview with President Donald Trump covering economic, health, tax, and trade policy. We factchecked...
David Stockman: Trump's Tax Plan Never Had a Chance
David Stockman served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan administration and is currently a member of the board of...
Maya MacGuineas: Declaring War on Fiscal Responsibility
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...