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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.
Everything You Need to Know About CBO's January 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook
We've published a new chartbook to illustrate the most important facts and figures from this week's report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
Social Security, Medicare, & Interest Drive 3/4 of Spending Growth
The deficit will grow from less than $550 billion in 2016 to $1.4 trillion in 2026, according to this week's report by the Congressional Budget Office...
Maya MacGuineas: What CBO’s Debt Projections Suggest About Congress and the Budget Process
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a commentary that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington...
The Long-Term Debt Picture Looks Much Worse As Well
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) summary of their upcoming budget projections showed a much worse ten-year outlook for deficits and debt, so it...
Maya MacGuineas: Modernizing Social Security and Medicare Starts with Leadership
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, was interviewed by the George W...
It Could Take $8 Trillion to Balance the Budget
Tuesday’s release of the topline numbers for this year's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline is a gut punch to congressional budget writers...
Our Analysis of CBO's January 2016 Budget and Economic Outlook Summary
The era of declining deficits is over. That's the conclusion of our analysis of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) January 2016 Budget and...
Deficits Rise in Latest Budget Projections
Update: You can view our full analysis here. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released baseline projections showing rapidly rising deficits...
Sanford Says Candidates Aren't Talking About Debt, Deficit
Congressman Mark Sanford (R-SC) wrote a piece in The Fiscal Times that highlights the paucity of substantive discussion from the 2016 presidential...
#SOTU Means It's Time to Play Debt-O!
President Obama's final State of the Union address is tonight at 9 p.m. ET. In preparation for his speech, we've brought back our State of the Union...
CBO's Latest Estimate of the Partial ACA Repeal
Kicking off the new year in style, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest estimate of the reconciliation bill passed by the Senate...
2015’s Fiscal Follies and Reasons for Hope
It’s the end of the year and like so many organizations, CRFB wanted to share with you our top 10 list: a look back at Congress’s 10 top fiscal...