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.
Chicago Tribune Praises First Budget for Forcing Candidates to Confront the Debt
The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board recently highlighted First Budget -- an initiative co-sponsored by the Campaign to Fix the Debt and the Concord...
Rattner Discusses Economic Problems Facing Millennials
Steven Rattner wrote an article in yesterday's The New York Times discussing the financial problems facing millennials. Rattner writes that...
Watch the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Conference
The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative is holding its SSDI Solutions Conference today from 8:45 AM to 5 PM. The conference features opening...
Jim McCrery and Earl Pomeroy: Social Security disability reform: An issue that can’t wait
Former U.S. Representatives Jim McCrery (R-LA) and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) are the co-chairs of the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative, a project...
How Lawmakers Have Added to Deficits This Year
The beginning of the 114th Congress was marked by a great deal of rhetoric about fiscal responsibility and passage of a budget resolution promising a...
Maya MacGuineas: Let's debate getting our fiscal house in order
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and Mr. Sandy Cutler, chairman and CEO of Eaton Corp., wrote a...
Trustee Blahous Says Time is Running Out to Fix Social Security
Charles Blahous, one of the public trustees for Medicare and Social Security, has released a Guide to the 2015 Social Security Trustees Report. The...
Key Takeaways from the New Health Care Spending Outlook
The Office of the Actuary (OACT) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its latest National Health Expenditure (NHE)...
Charlie Stenholm: A simple pledge to tackle our exploding debt
Charlie Stenholm is a former member of Congress from Texas and is a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a commentary...
Loren Adler: Medicare at Middle Age
Loren Adler, Research Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a guest post that appeared on the RealClearPolicy blog . It...
Taking a Closer Look at the Senate's Highway Bill
We commended the Senate last week for seeking a long-term solution to the highway funding shortfall and for funding its proposal with real offsets...
CRFB Announces New Co-Chairs
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has named three of the nation's foremost budget experts as its new co-chairs: Mitch Daniels, Leon...