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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Marc Goldwein: Here are realistic goals for Congress to get a grip on national debt
Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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CBO's Budget Options to Improve Trust Fund Solvency
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published its latest Options for Reducing the Deficit reports, outlining 76 policy options across two...
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New Study Finds Student Loan Pause is Regressive
A recent analysis by Diego Briones, Sarah Turner, and Eileen Powell of the University of Virginia found that the current student loan payment pause...
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CBO: Only a Decade Until Social Security Insolvency
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released detailed Social Security projections finding that the trust funds are headed for insolvency by...
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Alice Rivlin’s "Divided We Fall" Offers Way Forward for the Country
We at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget continue to mourn the loss of Alice Rivlin, a former board member of the Committee and the...
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What Would It Take to Balance the Budget?
We have published an updated analysis " What Would It Take to Balance the Budget? An Update" to account for the Congressional Budget Office's latest...
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Chris Towner: Three Charts That Tell America’s Troubling Fiscal Tale
Chris Towner is policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for Inside Sources , an excerpt...
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FY 2023 Omnibus Means Over $700 Billion Boost to Baseline Spending
The recently-passed Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 omnibus appropriations package will substantially boost appropriations levels this fiscal year and into the...
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IRS Funding Repeal Could Cost Over $100 Billion, Encourage Tax Cheating
1/9 Update: CBO released a score of the bill, incorporated below. The House is likely to vote today on a bill that would rescind roughly $70 billion...
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Congress Approved $113 Billion of Aid to Ukraine in 2022
Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine less than one year ago, Congress has approved more than $113 billion of aid and military assistance to...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2023
Updated 1/3/2023: The President signed the FY 2023 omnibus appropriations bill on Thursday, Dec. 29. The House passed the measure by a 221-205-1 vote...
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22 Top Fiscal Charts of 2022
2022 was a busy year for fiscal policy, which gave us many opportunities to conduct substantive policy analysis using charts and tables. This year, we...