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.
Enzi-Whitehouse Budget Process Bill Includes Important Reforms
The Senate Budget Committee recently marked up and reported bipartisan legislation to reform the budget process. The Bipartisan Congressional Budget...
Watch: Opportunities for Lowering Health Care Costs
On November 21, we hosted a major event on reducing health care costs for families, businesses, and the federal government. The event featured two...
Factchecking and Live-Tweeting the Democratic Presidential Primary Debates
Tonight's Democratic presidential primary debate marks the fifth round of debates of the 2020 campaign and will surely touch on fiscal issues. Through...
2020 Federal Tax Brackets Are Here
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released its tax year 2020 inflation adjustments for more than 60 federal tax provisions. To make these...
Mike Murphy: While Congress Makes Budgeting Look Hard, Americans Show How to Do It
Mike Murphy, the Chief of Staff and Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's FixUs initiative wrote an op-ed that is featured in...
Bernie Sanders's Social Security Expansion Act
Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed the Social Security Expansion Act, which would increase Social Security benefits...
Bipartisan Group Introduces TRUST Act
Earlier this week, Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Todd Young (R-IN), Doug Jones (D-AL), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), alongside...
Marc Goldwein & Tyler Evilsizer: Moving from a debt-busting tax cut to pro-growth tax reform
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Tyler Evilsizer is the deputy...
Treasury: 2019 Deficit was $984 Billion
The Treasury Department released final budget numbers for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 today, showing last year's deficit totaled $984 billion, a $205...
The Prevent Government Shutdowns Act Will Not Cost $12.6 Trillion
The Prevent Government Shutdowns Act (PGSA) would establish an automatic continuing resolution (auto-CR) to prevent shutdowns and would put into place...
Could Medicare for All be Financed Entirely by Cutting Defense Spending?
Last week, The New York Times published an op-ed entitled “We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare for All’ .” In it, Lindsay Koshgarian...
Why Are CBO and SSA so Far Apart on SS2100?
Both the Social Security Administration's (SSA) chief actuary, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released updated estimates of the...