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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.
FAA Bill Should Not Turn Into an April Christmas Tree
Update: The Congressional Budget Office has released its score of the Senate FAA bill, estimating that it would reduce ten-year deficits by a small...
Is Sustained 5 Percent Annual Growth Possible?
Since faster economic growth would represent a boon for wages and the fiscal situation, a number of Presidential candidates have been promising or...
Interest Spending Looms Large in the Next Decade
In a recent blog post on The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire, director of Brookings Institution's Hutchins Center David Wessel outlines a major...
Blahous Tells it Like it is with Social Security
Voters say they want a candidate that “tells them like it is,” but as Social Security Trustee Charles Blahous describes, that may mean facing...
Can Donald Trump Pay Off the National Debt in 8 Years?
In a recent interview, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would pay off the nation’s $19 trillion debt “over a period of eight years.”
Katherine Gehl & Maya MacGuineas: Debt and deficits rising: Who has courage?
Katherine Gehl, former president & CEO of Gehl Foods, Inc., and a member of the CEO Fiscal Leadership Council of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and...
CBO's New One-Stop Shop for Federal Spending on Health Insurance Coverage
CBO's March baseline is typically a brief update of budget projections for the next decade, but this year CBO has provided a new comprehensive look at...
Sanders's Paid Family Leave Plan, Explained
Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has a Family Values Agenda built upon current legislation that calls for mandatory...
Breaking Down CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its own estimate of the FY 2017 President's budget yesterday, a document that includes a 16-page report...
CBO Releases Its Own Take on the President's Budget
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its analysis of the Fiscal Year 2017 President's budget, finding that under the President's...
Provider Tax Limits Should Be On The Table for Medicaid Reform
Recently, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) criticized the House Energy & Commerce (E&C) Committee for proposing to limit abuse of...
How The March Baseline Reiterates Our Distressing Fiscal Path
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) updated March baseline confirms the era of declining deficits is over. This year's deficit is expected to rise...