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.
Charlie Stenholm: A simple pledge to tackle our exploding debt
Charlie Stenholm is a former member of Congress from Texas and is a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a commentary...
Loren Adler: Medicare at Middle Age
Loren Adler, Research Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post that appeared on the RealClearPolicy blog . It...
Taking a Closer Look at the Senate's Highway Bill
We commended the Senate last week for seeking a long-term solution to the highway funding shortfall and for funding its proposal with real offsets...
CRFB Announces New Co-Chairs
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has named three of the nation's foremost budget experts as its new co-chairs: Mitch Daniels, Leon...
Public Trustees Highlight the Need for Prompt Reform
Last week, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the long-term finances of each program, showing that those...
Unpaid-For Veterans Provisions Piggyback on Transportation Bill
Before Congress leaves for August, they must pass a transportation bill extending highway programs and transferring additional money into the Highway...
Washington Post on SSDI: An Opportunity for Bipartisan Compromise
The Washington Post yesterday issued Congress "a wise prescription for Social Security Disability Insurance," urging lawmakers to use the program's...
Delaying Social Security Changes Ties Policymakers' Hands
Our analysis of the 2015 Social Security Trustees' report noted that "As time goes on, it will be more difficult to secure the Social Security...
Gap Widens Between Trustees and CBO on Social Security
Although the Social Security Trustees estimate the program's financial outlook has slightly improved relative to last year, the Congressional Budget...
Becerra Introduces Bill to Combine Social Security Trust Funds
Just hours in advance of the release of Wednesday's 2015 Social Security Trustees' Report, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Ways &...
Medicare Trustees' Report Shows The Importance of Cost Control Vigilance
There was plenty of focus on the Social Security Trustees' report yesterday, but the Medicare report, released at the same time, contains very...
CRFB Breaks Down the Social Security Trustees' Report
Following the release of the 2015 Social Security Trustees' report yesterday, CRFB has released a report summarizing the myriad statistics and...