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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.
President's Budget Gets Serious About Cutting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Update: the tables in this post have been updated with estimates from CBO's analysis of the President's FY 2020 budget. CBO does not provide specific...
CBO's Updated Baseline Shows Grim Outlook
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated budget projections. The projections are relatively similar to January and continue...
Social Security Shortfall Could Be Worse Than Reported
The 2019 Social Security Trustees Report estimates the program's trust funds face a 75-year actuarial shortfall of 2.78 percent of taxable payroll...
Watch: Unpacking the Social Security Trustees' Report
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a lunch and panel discussion today on Unpacking the Social Security Trustees' Report. You can...
Social Security Will Start Spending Trust Fund Reserves Next Year
The 2019 Social Security Trustees' report reminded us that Social Security faces large and rising imbalances, projecting that the theoretically...
The Good News on Social Security: We Have More Time to Improve Disability Insurance
This week's Social Security Trustees' report warned that the program is on a path toward insolvency, with the theoretically combined trust fund set to...
How Old Will You Be When Social Security's Funds Run Out?
The Social Security Trust Funds are on a path to run out. Use this tool to find out what you stand to lose unless Washington acts.
Quick Take: Social Security & Medicare Headed For Insolvency in 16 & 7 Years
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees have released their reports on the financial state of their programs. Both reports show the programs need to...
GAO: "Federal Government Is on an Unsustainable Fiscal Path"
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its long-term budget projections, and, like other forecasts, it projects that debt will...
Maya MacGuineas & Ed Rendell: Tax Day Trauma: Paying for Our Massive National Debt
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. Governor Ed Rendell is the...
Maya MacGuineas and Mike Murphy: Disastrous Record Deficits Threaten US Future
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Mike Murphy is director of the Committee's new initiative, FixUS...
House Spending Plan Would Increase Discretionary Spending to Record Levels
The House Budget Committee proposal to raise the caps on discretionary spending would add over $2 trillion in projected debt over the next decade...