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.
FY 2012 Appropriations Update: The House Is in Motion
Attempting not to replicate last year's/this year's FY 2011 appropriations debacle, the House is moving the FY 2012 process in a relatively timely...
Donald Marron on Tax Expenditures
Donald Marron, director of the Tax Policy Center, has a good piece over at the Christian Science Monitor on how tax expenditures should be part of any...
Check Out WaPo's Interactive Graphic
The Washington Post has a great interactive graphic up on their website that allows you to compare several major fiscal plans -- and it's based on...
‘Line’ Items: Dark Horse Edition
Not Rounding the Bend Yet – Like the Triple Crown field, the fiscal policy landscape is muddled with several solutions vying to break out from the...
OMB Attacks Improper Payments Again
We talked a lot last year about OMB efforts to improve government efficiency, culminating in the Improper Payment Elimination and Recovery Act in July...
CRFB Identifies $1 Trillion-Plus in Common-Ground Savings
In a release today, CRFB highlighted the overlapping policies between the most prominent fiscal plans, identifying over $1 trillion in commonalities...
Senate Republicans Introduce Medicaid Block Grant Legislation
Yesterday, Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) released a proposal to reform the Medicaid program. Their...
Secretary Geithner on Our Fiscal Challenges
Earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner gave a speech about the unsustainability of our country's current fiscal path. Speaking at the...
Spotlight on the States: Ohio
Taking a break from all the recent developments in the budget and fiscal policy world, we take a quick turn to our Spotlight on the States blog series...
A Few Interesting Reports from CBO
In the past few days, CBO has released a few documents that might be of interest to budget wonks. The first is a further analysis of the final FY 2011...
Trustees Report Strengthens Case for Retirement Age Increase
Last week, several bloggers, commentators, and columnists went after Al Simpson for talking about increases in life expectancy at birth (since this...
Low-Hanging Fruit for Debt Ceiling Discussions
Update: Check out our release on these "commonalities" here. As Vice President Biden and several members of Congress continue working toward a...