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.
Bipartisan Senate Highway Bill Needs Offsets
The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee recently marked up and unanimously passed a bipartisan highway reauthorization bill. The bill...
An Overview of the President’s FY 2022 Budget
Moments ago, President Joe Biden unveiled his Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget proposal, outlining his tax and spending proposals and their effects on the...
What We Hope to See in the President's FY 2022 Budget
The White House is slated to release President Biden’s first full budget proposal this Friday. Although the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget request will...
Reducing Private Health Care Costs
Erica Socker and Mark Miller of Arnold Ventures last week penned a blog post in Health Affairs on the need to contain the costs of employer-provided...
CBO Releases Budget Projections Under Three Scenarios
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a letter outlining how enacted legislation and certain amounts of additional spending would...
What Would it Take to Stabilize the Debt?
Federal debt held by the public is now larger than annual economic output and is on track to reach 113 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2031...
RSC Releases Its FY 2022 Budget Proposal
The Republican Study Committee (RSC), a group of over 150 House Republicans, released its annual budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 on...
State & Local Aid is On Its Way, But Is It Needed?
Last week, the Department of Treasury issued guidelines for the allocations of $350 billion of direct state and local aid funds in the American Rescue...
Spending in the American Jobs Plan vs. the 2018 Senate Infrastructure Plan
Last month, President Joe Biden unveiled the second part of his "Build Back Better" agenda – the American Jobs Plan – focused on upgrading and...
Eugene Steuerle: How Existing Budgetary Commitments Could Affect President Biden’s Domestic Policy Goals
The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession laid bare many of the needs of working families and children, as well as federal, state, and local...
CRFB Launches Suite of Budget Games
Today the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched Budgeting for the Future, a suite of interactive games related to the federal budget and...
New Poll Finds Americans Worry About the Debt and Want the Budget More Balanced Between Generations
A new Ipsos poll finds that a strong majority of Americans are concerned about the national debt and want federal spending to be more balanced between...