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.
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Three CRFB and Fix the Debt Board Members Testify Before Congress
On September 8, three CRFB and Fix the Debt board members – Mitch Daniels, Judd Gregg, and Alice Rivlin – testified before the Joint Economic...
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How Much Would Trump's New Defense Plan Cost?
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump introduced a proposal today to increase defense spending and rebuild the military. Specifically, his...
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Interest Rates Drive Changes in CBO's Latest Outlook
By far the biggest revision to the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) latest ten-year budget projections are the lower projected interest rates...
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Maya MacGuineas: The first step towards solving the debt crisis: Stop digging
Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that...
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Marc Goldwein: Five Social Security Plans That Really Would Help Make America Great Again
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a guest...
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Our Quick Take on CBO's August Projections
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released updated baseline projections showing deficits and debt rising in the coming years. CRFB will...
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CBO: Federal Investment is Good for Long-Term Growth - If It's Paid For
Public investment has the potential to significantly increase economic growth, but only if its paid for – that's the key finding of a recent report...
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Maya MacGuineas: We Can't Borrow Our Way to Prosperity
Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that...
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Health Care in CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook
Federal health care spending is one of the most important projections in the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) recent Long-Term Budget Outlook since...
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Gene Steuerle: The 'Save Our Social Security Act of 2016': A Major Step Toward Reform
Without fanfare, a bipartisan group of Representatives has introduced a bill that could bring Social Security’s finances close to long-term balance.
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Subject to Change: How Different Parameters Could Affect Long-Term Debt
Underlying the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) 30-year budget projections are a series of economic and demographic assumptions that are critical...
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Long-Term Budget Outlook Underlines Trouble Ahead for Social Security
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook release came with updated projections of the 75-year solvency of Social Security...