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.
Debt Would Rise, Not Fall, Under the President’s Budget
The President’s budget estimates it would reduce debt to 71 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits to $202 billion (0.6 percent of GDP)...
Economists Agree: Deficits Matter
Rarely do economists agree on anything. But a survey this week through the University of Chicago's IGM Forum found that 42 top economists from across...
Marc Goldwein and Russ Latino: Congress Must Break its Addiction to Unjust Tax Extenders
Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Russ Latino is vice president...
Does the President's Budget Slash Medicare by $845 Billion?
President Trump's Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget released Monday has been met with significant criticism, especially from us. But one of the most widely...
An Overview of the President's FY 2020 Budget
Moments ago, President Trump released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget proposals, outlining his tax and spending proposals for the next decade. We...
Bipartisan Recommendations to Reduce Health Spending from Brookings and AEI
Experts from the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute have released a joint list of recommendations to reduce health care costs...
What We’d Like to See in President Trump’s FY 2020 Budget
Reports suggest the Trump administration will release its FY 2020 budget in two parts, beginning next week. With debt at post-war record highs...
Health Spending Outlook Shows Faster Growth Ahead
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new National Health Expenditure (NHE) projections through 2027, showing health...
Annual Deficits Could Hit $2.3 Trillion
Deficits are rising quickly under current law, as the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) recent budget outlook demonstrates. Under current law, CBO...
How Much Will Medicare for All Cost?
Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a co-chair of the Medicare for All Caucus, released a bill today that would adopt a single-payer system, where...
Tax Cut and Spending Bill Could Cost $5.5 Trillion Through 2029
The 2017 tax cut and the 2018 spending bill loom large in the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) outlook; the two pieces of legislation as...
SSDI Solutions Initiative Releases Paper on Developing Demonstrations Based on Lessons Learned
The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative yesterday released the first of a series of papers on how to improve policies for people with...