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: George Voinovich's remarkable legacy of fiscal responsibility
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an opinion piece that...
Senators Cotton and Lee Propose Ideas to Strengthen SSDI
Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation recently to help improve the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program...
Maya MacGuineas: In Two Social Security Reports, Ways to Reduce Senior Poverty Without Broad Benefit Cuts
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
Entitlement Reform Proposals Offered by BPC and AEI
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC’s) Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings released its recommendations to improve retirement...
Statement by Maya MacGuineas on the Passing of Former Senator George Voinovich
I am stunned and deeply saddened by the loss of Senator George Voinovich, a true friend and great mentor to all of us here at the Committee for a...
Welcome to the New CRFB Website
After months of hard work, we are welcoming vistors to our newly redesigned website. You might notice the bigger font, better images, and a...
Marc Goldwein: Alicia Munnell is wrong: Social Security needs a quick fix
Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote an opinion piece...
CRFB Turns 35 - We Are Old Enough to Remember When...
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget was incorporated on June 10, 1981. Our 35th birthday is a good occasion to look back at some of the...
House Republicans Release Poverty Recommendations
The House Republicans' Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility released a report this week outlining recommendations for poverty...
CBO Estimates Economic Effects of the President's Final Budget
In addition to producing its own estimate of the budgetary effects of the President's budget, CBO typically estimates the economic effects of the...
Social Security Cost Growth Should Be Slowed, Not Accelerated
In a speech in Elkhart, Indiana on June 1, President Obama discussed retirement security, saying, "We can’t afford to weaken Social Security. We...
McCain Amendment Would Undermine Appropriations Discipline
When the Senate considers this year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) is...