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.
Maya MacGuineas on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria"
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria" to discuss CBO...
It's Time for "Super PAYGO"
“Pay-As-You-Go” or PAYGO rules and laws require offsets for new tax cuts and mandatory spending so they do not add to the debt. 1 Too often these...
10 Things to Look Out For After the 2025 Reconciliation Law
Earlier this month, the President signed the 2025 reconciliation law – also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA). The law extended and...
CMS Takes on Medicare Fraud
In a recent LA Times op-ed, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deputy Administrator Kimberly Brandt...
Appropriations Watch: FY 2025
Updated 7/31/25: On July 24, President Trump signed a recissions package which rescinds $9 billion in federal funding that had previously been...
Maya MacGuineas on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports"
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports" to discuss the latest...
Retirees Face an $18,100 Benefit Cut in 7 Years
The Social Security and Medicare trust funds are only a little more than seven years from insolvency, based on projections from the programs’ own...
Congress Should Extend Caps on Discretionary Spending
The discretionary spending caps put in place under the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) are scheduled to expire on October 1. As lawmakers work to...
Bipartisan Lawmakers Introduce Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act
Representatives Ben Cline (R-VA) and Jared Golden (D-ME) introduced the Fiscal Contingency Preparedness Act (FCPA) today. This bill was also...
What's In the One Big Beautiful Bill Act?
Note: This blog was updated on 8/4/25 to reflect CBO's newly-released estimates of the permanent cost of certain expiring tax provisions in OBBBA. The...
Marc Goldwein and Anthony Colavito: OBBBA Didn't End Taxes on Social Security Benefits; Here's What We Could Do Now
Marc Goldwein is Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Anthony Colavito is a Social...
2025 Reconciliation Resources
The 119th Congress is expected to use the reconciliation process to pass legislation with a significant fiscal impact, such as extending the expiring...