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.
Lawmakers Release Emergency Funding Request on Coronavirus
Appropriators released today their $8.3 billion emergency funding bill to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak, $5.8 billion more than the $2.5 billion...
Thoughtful Deficit Reduction in the President’s Budget
While much of the decline in debt as a share of GDP in the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget comes from rosy economic growth assumptions and...
Maya MacGuineas: Both Republicans and Democrats are ignoring a growing danger to our economy and national security: the national debt
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...
How Much Does a Payroll Tax Holiday Cost?
President Trump tweeted support for a one-year payroll tax cut Monday evening, saying: The Democrats in the House should propose a very simple one...
How Will Candidate Plans Affect Total Health Costs?
We recently updated our estimates of the budgetary impacts of health care reform plans put forward by 2020 presidential candidates Joe Biden, Bernie...
Event Recap: Better Budget Process Summit: Building Momentum for Meaningful Reform
On February 25, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted the second Better Budget Process Summit on "Building Momentum for Meaningful...
Pete Buttigieg's Climate Change Plan
Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has proposed a climate change plan with an end goal of getting...
New Infographics on 2020 Candidates' Health Plans
We have updated these infographics – originally published on February 7 – to reflect a new set of proposals released on February 24 by Senator Sanders...
Watch: 2020 Better Budget Process Summit - Building Momentum for Meaningful Reform
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted the “2020 Better Budget Process Summit: Building Momentum for Meaningful Reform.” The event...
Bernie Sanders's Plan for Universal Child Care and Pre-K Education
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today unveiled his plan to provide free universal child care and pre-kindergarten...
Debt Will Likely Rise, Not Fall, Under the President's Budget
According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget would reduce debt from 80 percent of Gross...
Bill Advances to Combat Improper Payments
Congress recently passed a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) to improve efforts to identify and reduce improper payments across...