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.
What the Wall Street Journal Gets Wrong on the SGR
This weekend, The Wall Street Journal announced its support for the permanent Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) replacement currently being negotiated in...
Support Grows for Fiscally Responsible Doc Fix
As doc fix discussions continue in Congress, three opinion pieces recently declared support for fully offsetting the cost of a replacement for the...
The Debt Ceiling Returns...and 10 Ways to Reform It
The federal government will reach its second Fiscal Speed Bump today, as the debt ceiling will be reinstated after having been suspended since last...
Maya MacGuineas Testifies in Front of Senate Budget Committee
Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified last Wednesday in front of the Senate Budget Committee for a...
Our Analysis of CBO's Estimate of the President's Budget is Here
We've released our analysis of CBO's estimate of the President's budget, breaking down the report and its supplementary data in less than six pages...
CBO's Analysis of the President's Budget is Here
CBO has just released its analysis of the President's FY 2016 budget, using its own numbers and methods to re-estimate the budget. While CBO reveals...
CBO Delivers Good News for the Affordable Care Act
The latest CBO projections show a slight improvement on our fiscal situation over the previous ones made in January, and lower projected health...
CRFB Publishes Updated PREP Plan Outlining Responsible SGR Reform
In light of the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump when the most recent doc fix patch expires on March 31, yesterday we released an update to our Paying for...
CRFB's Taxpayer Receipt in USA Today
Did you know that nearly 75 dollars out of every 100 dollars in taxes paid goes to just four major areas? Monday’s USA Today front page featured data...
CBO Releases New Baseline Ahead of President's Budget Estimate
In advance of its scheduled release of an analysis of the President's budget, CBO has updated its budget projections for the next ten years. Their new...
Update: Impending Fiscal Speed Bumps
Congress approached and addressed the first impending " Fiscal Speed Bump" this week, cleanly funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with...
Rattner Testifies Before Senate Finance Committee on Tax Fairness
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on how best to achieve "tax fairness" as a part of their larger focus on tax reform. Testifying...