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.
Analyzing Clinton's Health and Education Expansions
Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently unveiled expansions of her proposals for higher education and...
How Much Would Clinton and Trump Increase Our $19 Trillion Gross Debt?
Our report Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election estimates that debt held by the public would rise from about $14 trillion...
Has President Obama Doubled the National Debt?
While accepting the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump said, "President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19...
Latest Health Spending Projection Shows Higher Spending Growth Ahead
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its National Health Expenditure (NHE) projections for 2015-2025 last week. National health...
Is the U.S. the Highest Taxed Nation in the World?
As he accepted the Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump stated that “America is one of the highest-taxed countries in the world,” while...
The Long-Term Outlook Could Be Even Worse Than CBO Says
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows debt nearly doubling as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the next 30...
The Very, Very Long-Term Budget Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) long-term outlook shows growing federal debt over the next 30 years, but we extended those projections to 75...
What Donald Trump Can Do to Improve His Tax and Spending Policies
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, Donald Trump’s economic advisers Andy Puzder and Stephen Moore stated that the campaign will release changes...
OMB’s Mid-Session Review Confirms Growing Deficits Ahead
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released today the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Mid-Session Review (MSR), which updates both OMB’s budget baseline...
Chairman Enzi Proposes Budget Process Reforms
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) outlined his recommendations for budget process reform yesterday based on bipartisan discussions in...
Rep. Ribble Releases Legislation to Make Social Security Solvent
Representative Reid Ribble (R-WI) along with a bipartisan group of cosponsors released the Save Our Social Security Act today, a bill which would make...
Shedding Light on the Fiscal State of the Nation
Representative Jim Renacci (R-OH) along with Representative John Carney (D-DE) and 22 other original cosponsors introduced a bipartisan Fiscal State...