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.
CBO Shows an Unsustainable Long-Term Fiscal Path
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook, showing a clearly unsustainable long-term path for the federal...
Scoring Clinton and Trump with Different Growth Assumptions
In our analysis "Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election," we compared the fiscal effects of the policies proposed by presumptive...
Marc Goldwein: Both Clinton and Trump Would Grow National Debt
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a guest...
House GOP Sketches Out Details on Tax Reform
The House Republicans continue to rollout several policy proposals/frameworks, recently releasing a tax reform plan that aims to reduce tax rates and...
Social Security May Be In Worse Shape Than Trustees Suggest
The Social Security Trustees made their projections last week showing the program's sizeable shortfall and its trust fund's insolvency date, but there...
Medicare Trustees Show Need for Reform
The Medicare Trustees released their latest report last week, along with the companion Social Security Trustees' report. The report estimates that...
PBS NewsHour Piece on CRFB's Latest Analysis
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a column that appeared in PBS NewsHour's Making Sen$e. It is...
Maya MacGuineas: Social Security: focus on solvency first
Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that...
Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Fiscal Commission Bill
Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and David Perdue (R-GA) recently introduced legislation that would create a bipartisan National...
A Quick Take on the 2016 Social Security Trustees Report
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees have released their reports on the financial state of their respective programs. With regards to Social...
Judd Gregg: The Silver Lining
Good news: There is today — right now — a bipartisan working group headed by Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) that is trying...
The Need for Fiscal Goals
The House Budget Committee held a hearing on Wednesday (June 15, 2016) on budget process reform and the need for fiscal goals. CRFB president Maya...