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.
Adding Realistic Assumptions to CBO's Baseline
CBO's most recent budget projections show debt on an unsustainable path – rising from a post-war record 73 percent of GDP today to 78 percent by 2024...
Health Reform's Coverage Costs Decline by $104 Billion
The budget estimates in the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO's) baseline released today may have looked largely the same as in February's report...
CBO Continues to Show Unsustainable Debt Path
In advance of the release of their analysis of the President's budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated their budget baseline for...
Extending Tax Breaks Would Squander Fiscal Cliff Revenue
After allowing taxes to rise on the highest 1 percent of earners at the beginning of last year, many Democrats patted themselves on the back for...
How the House-Passed Budget Tightens Defense Spending Caps
In our discussion of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget, we talked about one area where the budget actually boosts spending...
Bipartisan Policy Center Launches Long-Term Care Initiative
The enormous cost of providing long-term care represents a major challenge for America's health system, and a major funding challenge for Medicaid...
Comparing Debt Under the FY2015 Budgets
Budgets for the upcoming fiscal year have been released from the White House, House Republicans, House Democrats, the Republican Study Committee, the...
The Republican Study Committee's Alternative Budget
Just after House Democrats released their budget this week, the Republican Study Committee has come out with its own proposal to balance the budget in...
Congressional Black Caucus Releases Budget
Following House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget markup last week and floor debate this week, the Congressional Black Caucus budget...
“Long-Term SCORE Act” Introduced Today
Congressman Reid Ribble (R-WI) and Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced the Long-Term Studies of Comprehensive Outcomes and Returns for the...
Health Care Reforms in Chairman Paul Ryan's FY 2015 Budget
Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) FY 2015 budget achieves $3 trillion of its $5.1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ten years...
2014 GAO Report on Duplication and Overlap
Each year, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) produces a report covering opportunities to reduce fragmentation, overlap, and duplication...