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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.
Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress Extended
The House voted last week on a rules package that extended the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress (SCMC) through the 117th...
Debt Cancellation and SALT Cap Repeal Would Benefit Higher Earners
In her recent Washington Post column, Catherine Rampell argues progressives should “be more progressive in an old-fashioned sense: by helping the poor...
Four-Fifths of Stimulus Checks Have Been Sent
In the first three days of distributing the second round of stimulus checks approved by Congress in the Response and Relief Act, the Treasury...
What's in the December Jobs Report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning released its monthly jobs report which showed a net loss of 140,000 jobs during the month of December. The...
Breaking Down $3.4 Trillion in COVID Relief
With the passage of the Response & Relief Act, Congress has now allocated around $4 trillion of COVID relief at a net cost of over $3.4 trillion...
Maya MacGuineas Joins Fox Business to Fiscal Policy After Georgia Senate Runoffs
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Fox Business to discuss what the political and economic...
2021 Deficit On Course to Hit $2.3 Trillion
In light of the enactment of the year-end spending and COVID relief deal, we estimate the deficit will total $2.3 trillion for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021...
Maya MacGuineas Joins CNN to Discuss Healing Political Divisions
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on CNN to discuss how President-Elect Joe Biden can work to...
Our Top 20 Charts of 2020
2020 was a busy year for fiscal policy, which gave us ample opportunities to conduct substantive policy analyses using charts and tables. This year...
Would $2,000 Stimulus Checks Go to Six-Figure Households?
The House approved the CASH Act Monday to increase recently enacted stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 per person. Some of those hesitant about the...
How Much Would $2,000 Checks Cost?
With the enactment of the Response & Relief Act yesterday, policymakers in both parties have called for expanding recovery rebates from $600 per...
The Response & Relief Act Would Support the Economic Recovery
President Trump is yet to sign the year-end bill that contains the Coronavirus Response & Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and accompanying...