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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.
Event Recap: McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative Recommendations Release
On Wednesday, April 6, the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative released its final recommendations and book of policy proposals dedicated to...
Maya MacGuineas: Our Debt Problem Needs Action—Not Empty Promises: 5 questions for candidates on balancing the budget
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an article that appeared...
Halfway Through the Year, FY 2016 Leads FY 2015 in Deficits
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for March recently, so we now have data for the first half of Fiscal Year (FY...
The Obama Administration Moves on Business Tax Changes
The topic of tax reform made the news on Monday as the Obama Administration simultaneously took regulatory steps to further limit corporate inversions...
FAA Bill Should Not Turn Into an April Christmas Tree
Update: The Congressional Budget Office has released its score of the Senate FAA bill, estimating that it would reduce ten-year deficits by a small...
Is Sustained 5 Percent Annual Growth Possible?
Since faster economic growth would represent a boon for wages and the fiscal situation, a number of Presidential candidates have been promising or...
Interest Spending Looms Large in the Next Decade
In a recent blog post on The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire, director of Brookings Institution's Hutchins Center David Wessel outlines a major...
Blahous Tells it Like it is with Social Security
Voters say they want a candidate that “tells them like it is,” but as Social Security Trustee Charles Blahous describes, that may mean facing...
Can Donald Trump Pay Off the National Debt in 8 Years?
In a recent interview, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would pay off the nation’s $19 trillion debt “over a period of eight years.”
Katherine Gehl & Maya MacGuineas: Debt and deficits rising: Who has courage?
Katherine Gehl, former president & CEO of Gehl Foods, Inc., and a member of the CEO Fiscal Leadership Council of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and...
CBO's New One-Stop Shop for Federal Spending on Health Insurance Coverage
CBO's March baseline is typically a brief update of budget projections for the next decade, but this year CBO has provided a new comprehensive look at...
Sanders's Paid Family Leave Plan, Explained
Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has a Family Values Agenda built upon current legislation that calls for mandatory...