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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.
CBO: Social Security Trust Fund To Be Exhausted 1 Year Earlier, in 2030
One of the biggest stories of last year's long-term outlook was the deterioration in Social Security's financial picture. Largely due to CBO's...
CRFB Analyzes the CBO Long-Term Outlook
CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook is a long and detailed 140-page document – filled to the brim with facts, figures, scenarios and assumptions – and...
CBO Releases 2014 Long-term Outlook
Earlier today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Long-Term Budget Outlook. Although CBO normally makes ten-year projections...
CRFB Examines the Budget Process At Age 40
Yesterday, the Commmittee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a paper detailing the problems with the federal budget process. In light of the...
CRFB President Maya MacGuineas to Speak at the Peterson Institute Today
Today at 12.15 p.m., the Peterson Institute for International Economics is hosting a book launch for "Post-crisis Fiscal Policy," a book by the...
How Much of a Payroll Tax Increase Would It Take to Fix Social Security?
Around this time of year, the Social Security Trustees usually issue their report on the status of the program over the next 75 years. In advance of...
Mid-Session Review Shows Worse Outlook for President's Budget
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) this afternoon released the Mid-Session Review, updating its budgetary and economic estimates for the...
Bipartisan Agreement on Gimmicks to Fund the Highway Trust Fund
Both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee approved legislation on Thursday to fund a short-term patch for the Highway...
Would Bonus Depreciation Grow the Economy and Pay For Itself?
The House passed legislation today to expand and make permanent the bonus depreciation rules that expired at the end of last year. A key argument for...
White House Releases Supplemental Immigration Request
The White House this week requested an additional $4.3 billion in discretionary appropriations for the current fiscal year to cover the cost of the...
Don't Use a Gimmick to Fund Our Highways
The House Ways and Means Committee just published its plan for a short-term fix to the Highway Trust Fund, which needs an additional $8 billion to...
Continued Slow Growth for Medicare in 2014
CBO's release of the June Monthly Budget Review (MBR) gives us another data point in what has been an interesting story for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014: the...