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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.
What Would It Take to Balance the Budget? An Update
The analysis below updates our previous analysis " What Would It Take to Balance the Budget?" to account for the Congressional Budget Office's latest...
Net Interest Will Total $10.5 Trillion Over the Next Decade
One of the fastest-growing expenditures over the next decade will be net interest on the national debt, according to the latest projections from the...
CBO's Latest Projections Make Fiscal Goals More Difficult
Federal debt held by the public is on track to exceed its record as a share of the economy – 106 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), set just...
CBO Releases February 2023 Budget and Economic Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its February 2023 Budget and Economic Outlook, its first baseline since May 2022. CBO's new budget...
Site-Neutral Payments Would Lower Private Health Costs, Encourage Competition
The Health Savers Initiative recently published “ Moving to Site Neutrality in Commercial Insurance Payments,” which examines the market...
Tax Policy Center Estimates Medicare Revenue Proposals
The Tax Policy Center (TPC) recently published a report on “ Options for Increasing Medicare Revenues.” This report identifies 12 options to increase...
BCBSA Offers Options to Reduce Health Care Costs
Recently, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) released a plan to lower health care costs that focuses primarily on reducing the high prices...
Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2023 Introduced in the Senate
Last week, Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and a bipartisan group of nine additional senators reintroduced the Prevent...
Biden IDR Plan Will Cost More than Advertised
Last month, the Biden Administration put forward a proposed rule to unilaterally expand the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) program for student debt. In...
Net Interest Payments Topped $475 Billion in FY 2022
One of the main reasons to be concerned about our high and rising national debt is the growing size of interest payments needed to service it. In...
Marc Goldwein on You Don't Have to Yell Podcast Discussing Debt Ceiling
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein recently appeared on the " You Don't Have to...
The 2022 U.S. Economy in Ten Charts
In economic history, 2022 will be remembered for high and rising inflation and rising interest rates in response. While high inflation dominated the...