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.
Can Post-Acute Care Reforms Save the Medicare Trust Fund?
The Medicare Part A Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will be insolvent within five years according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the...
What We Hope to See in the President's FY 2023 Budget
President Biden is slated to release his Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget proposal on March 28. The President's budget is meant to provide a roadmap for...
It Should Be Easy to Offset Additional COVID Funds
The White House has made the case for additional funding to fight the COVID-19 pandemic – in particular to purchase vaccines, treatments, testing, and...
How Much Student Debt Has Already Been Cancelled?
Note: (8/30/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which updates the estimated cost...
MedPAC Releases 2022 Medicare Report
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its biannual report yesterday. The report includes analysis and recommendations to improve...
What's in the FY 2022 Omnibus Bill?
Last week, Congress passed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 omnibus appropriations bill, which sets appropriations levels and allocations for the remainder...
Time to Wind Down Remaining COVID Relief
Though most COVID relief has already been spent, several policies continue to provide ongoing financial support and could be renewed again by Congress...
Heritage Foundation Releases 2022 Budget Blueprint
The Heritage Foundation recently released their 2022 Budget Blueprint, a list of over 200 specific policy proposals that would “roll back excessive...
Did President Biden Reduce the Deficit by $1 Trillion?
In his first State of the Union address, President Joe Biden stated that he would be "the only president ever to cut the deficit by more than one...
Cancelling Student Debt Would Add to Inflation
Lawmakers and advocates have loudened their calls to cancel student loan debt before the current re-payment moratorium ends on May 1 st. Given the...
The 2021 U.S. Economy in Ten Charts
2021 was a unique year in economic history. Assisted by new COVID vaccines, accommodative monetary policy, and trillions of fiscal stimulus, the US...
Maya MacGuineas: Say no to a gas tax holiday
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...