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.
Marc Goldwein: 'Big 3' Burden: Entitlement Costs Simply Untenable
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Commitee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
Is There a Medicaid Spending Increase Under the Senate Health Bill?
President Donald Trump recently claimed on Twitter that Medicaid spending will go up under the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). It is...
Highlights from CBO's June Baseline Update
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released updated ten-year budgetary baseline and economic projections. Like its previous projection in...
Rudolph Penner: The Attacks On The Congressional Budget Office Are Wrong
Dr. Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...
Maya MacGuineas: Trump is Wrong on US Tax Ranking, But We Still Need Tax Reform
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
CBO Scores the Senate Health Care Bill
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its score of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA). This is the Senate's version of...
Do Temporary Tax Cuts Only Have A Small Impact on Growth?
While promoting tax reform, House Speaker Paul Ryan stated Tuesday that temporary tax cuts do not produce a large boost to economic growth: These...
Quick Take: The Major Changes in the Senate's AHCA
Senate Republicans released their draft version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 this morning. This is the Senate version of the American...
Build a Responsible Federal Budget With Our New Debt Fixer Tool
Now that President Trump has unveiled his full budget proposal and Congress is working on its own budget resolution, CRFB is launching a new tool that...
Paying for the Senate's Changes to the AHCA
Senate Republicans are continuing work on their iteration of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and press reports indicate that senators aim to make...
Options to Help Pay For the Trump Tax Plan
President Trump's tax reform proposal could cost $5.5 trillion over 10 years, but many of the details that might bring the price tag down have not...
Gene Steuerle: Replacing The Individual Mandate to Buy Health Insurance: A First Step To Compromise
The Trump Administration and congressional Republicans remain stalemated over how to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA).