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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.
Going Long: OMB's 75-Year Projections
In our paper on the President's budget, we noted that the budget would only temporarily stabilize the debt as a percent of GDP. In fact, it would rise...
Digging Holes When We Need It Least
In what is being hailed as a demonstration of bipartisanship, Congress broke its previous commitment to deficit-neutrality and agreed to a bill (HR...
A Closer Look at the President's Tax Policy
This week, in our blog series on the President's budget, we have talked about the overall numbers in the President's budget and the amount of savings...
Scoring the Republican Presidential Candidates
On Thursday, February 23, CRFB’s US Budget Watch project will unveil its study of the budgetary impact of the campaign promises of the major...
Coburn and Burr Add to Medicare Discussion
Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-NC) came out with a Medicare proposal today that adds to the list of plans out there to rein in the...
What Will the Budget Look Like in 2022?
In our continued analysis of the President’s budget, we now move to a detailed examination of what the budget would look like at the end of the ten...
CRFB Analysis of the President's 2013 Budget
Since the release of the President’s FY 2013 budget on Monday, CRFB has provided coverage of the President’s proposal through our FY 2013 blog series...
A Deal to Forget on the Hill
Update: The House has approved the payroll-tax deal 293-132. Just when you thought the conference committee might start agreeing on specific offsets...
How CBO May Score the President's Budget
Last year, when the President's budget used overly optimistic economic assumptions and various magic asterisks, we re-estimated their budget using...
How the President Met the 2013 Cap
Continuing on in our blog series, we will be discussing discretionary spending proposals in the President's budget. The FY 2013 budget was notable for...
What Will the Budget Look like in 2022?
In this edition of our continuing analysis of the President's FY 2013 budget, we will now examine what the budget will look like in 2022, the end of...
Budget Reform Proposals in the President's FY 2013 Budget
This installment of the FY 2013 Budget Series focuses on some of the budget process reform proposals buried deep in the Analytical Perspectives...