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.
What We Know About the President's Budget
Updated February 10th to include National Infrastructure Bank.* As the budget world waits for the FY 2012 Budget on Monday, some new proposals from...
So What Should We Think About Going to 2008 Levels?
There’s been a lot of discussion about the recent spending cuts put forward by Representative Ryan (R-WI), designed to bring non-security...
House Appropriations Committee Offers Detailed List of Cuts
Today, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers (R-KY) released a preliminary proposal for cuts to the President's FY2011 budget...
Bipartisan Senate Support for Enhanced Presidential Rescission Authority
Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Thomas Carper (D-DE) have joined efforts in yet another bipartisan pairing, this time to enable enhanced rescission...
CNN Money Exclusive: No Excuses on the Debt, Mr. Obama
In her latest commentary on CNN money, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas calls on President Obama to stop making excuses and get serious about developing...
Spotlight on the States: New York
This week, our Spotlight on the States series takes us to New York. New York faces an estimated budget deficit of $10 billion. Due to slower-than...
‘Line’ Items: Play On Edition
Budget Season Ramping Up – Football season may have ended last night, but budget season is just heating up. Lawmakers have introduced a plethora of...
OMB Director in New York Times: "The Easy Cuts Are Behind Us"
OMB Director Jack Lew previewed President Obama’s FY2012 budget in an op-ed published in Sunday’s New York Times. The title of the piece, "The Easy...
House and Senate to Have Serious Debate Over Spending
With the House Appropriations Committee releasing their spending allocations for each subcommittee yesterday, it is useful to examine what the Senate...
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson on CNBC
This morning the two co-chairs of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform were guests on CNBC's The Call. Erskine...
MarketWatch: January 31 - February 4, 2011
Markets in the U.S. and elsewhere have focused on signs that the U.S. economy continues to recover, although still at a very gradual pace. January’s...
Paul Ryan Sets Spending Levels for FY 2011
Earlier today, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the chair of the House Budget Committee, unveiled new levels for discretionary spending for the remainder of FY...