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.
Maya MacGuineas on Bloomberg TV's "Balance of Power"
Committee president Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Bloomberg's "Balance of Power" to discuss President-elect Trump's comments on the debt...
Chris Towner: It’s Time To Get Serious About The Federal Budget Deficit
Chris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for the Carolina Journal...
Top 13 Fiscal Charts of 2024
It was a busy year for fiscal policy in 2024, with a big focus on the presidential election. In addition to releasing a few major papers, we also...
John Kasich: It’s finally time to tackle the national debt
John Kasich is a former governor of Ohio, former congressman representing the state, and director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...
Reflections on the 2024 Ed Lorenzen Fiscal Internship
By Olabisi Omoniyi-Alake The time that I have spent working at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has been a transformative...
Maya MacGuineas: The Biggest Budget Deadline No One Has Heard Of
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Examiner , an...
Options to Raise Tariff Revenue
Note: (02/13/2025) We are updating our estimate for Reciprocal Tariffs on Countries that Impose Tariffs on U.S. Exports; it has been removed in the...
Kent Conrad: The Conrad Rule is the Answer to our Budget Reconciliation Woes
Kent Conrad is a former senator, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and a director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He...
Medicaid Savings Options
The Medicaid program – a joint federal-state program that provides health care to low-income populations – is projected to cost the federal government...
Typical Couple Will Lose $25,000 of Social Security from WEP/GPO Repeal
Lawmakers are considering the repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Not only would...
Event Recap – 2025: The Fiscal Challenges Ahead
On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted more than 130 people at an in-person event, " 2025: The Fiscal...
TCJA Extension Might Not Pay for Any of Itself
New data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that economic feedback may not cover any of the revenue loss and that TCJA extension might...