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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.
Heritage Foundation Publishes Budget Book of Proposed Spending Cuts
Last week, the Heritage Foundation released the Budget Book, a catalog of 106 ways to cut the budget or reduce the size of government totaling roughly...
Erskine Bowles: The Risks of Delaying Fiscal Reforms
Erskine Bowles is a former co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a...
The Case for "Mindful Austerity"
In a commentary published on Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip wrote about President Obama’s budget and the declaration that it is moving away...
Dispelling Common Myths in the SSDI Debate
The President's FY 2016 Budget last week proposed dealing with the upcoming Fiscal Speed Bump of the exhaustion of the Social Security Disability...
The President's Budget Stabilizes Debt Over the Long Term...Maybe
In addition to showing estimates over the next ten years, the President's budget includes in its lengthy Analytical Perspectives section a 25-year...
PAYGO Kudos to the President's Budget
The President's budget follows the important budget principle of PAYGO, responsibly identifying tax and spending offsets sufficient to pay for new...
What Will CBO Say About the President’s Budget?
The President's budget would put debt on a very slight downward path over the next ten years, but that is by the Office of Management and Budget's own...
No, the President's Budget Doesn't Meet Simpson-Bowles Targets
In touting the low deficits in the President's budget, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest claimed that by reducing the deficit below 3 percent...
The President's Approach to the Sequester
October 1 of this year marks the beginning of fiscal year (FY) 2016 and the return of the sequester on discretionary (appropriated) spending. No...
The President's Budget Saves Only Half of What It Claims
The administration may claim that its budget "achieves about $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction," but our analysis finds that it only reduces deficits...
CRFB Publishes 9-Page Paper on President's FY 2016 Budget
With the release of the President's FY 2016 Budget yesterday, CRFB published a condensed analysis of the President's baseline and major proposals. In...
Policies in the FY 2016 President's Budget
The President released his FY 2016 budget today, describing his proposals for this year and the next decade. We already published a short blog...