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.
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Maya MacGuineas on "Bloomberg Surveillance"
Committee president Maya MacGuineas recently joined "Bloomberg Surveillance" with hosts Tom Keene, Jonathan Ferro and Lisa Abramowicz to discuss the...
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Event Recap: Second Annual Health Solutions Summit
On November 8th, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted its second annual Health Solutions Summit in partnership with the Healthcare...
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Nikki Haley's Proposal to Repeal IRA Green Tax Credits
Recently, former United Nations Ambassador and current GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley made a speech at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, in...
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Can Economic Growth Save Social Security?
When asked whether they would support raising the Social Security retirement age to avert insolvency during last Wednesday’s Republican presidential...
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Options Floated to Offset Israel Aid Package
Congress is currently considering $14.3 billion of supplemental emergency funding to aid Israel and Gaza, with the House having passed a version that...
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Maya MacGuineas on CNBC's "The Exchange"
Committee president Maya MacGuineas recently joined CNBC's "The Exchange" with Kelly Evans to discuss the recent downgrade of the U.S. debt outlook by...
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TCJA Expansions Could Balloon Cost of Extensions
Extending various income and estate tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) expiring after 2025 would cost $3.4 trillion through 2035...
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Paying for Emergency Funding
As Congress considers $14 billion of emergency funding to aid Israel and potentially tens of billions more in other one-time foreign and domestic...
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Moore v. US Ruling Could Widen Deficits, Upend Tax Law
A pending Supreme Court case, Moore v. United States, could have implications that undermine existing tax law, upend the tax code, and cost the U.S...
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CBO: Israel Supplemental Costs $27 billion
The House of Representatives is set to vote on the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act as early as Thursday. This morning, the...
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What's in the White House's $56 Billion Domestic Supplemental Request?
Less than a week after requesting $106 billion for national security needs, the Biden Administration submitted to Congress a domestic emergency...
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ARCHIVE: Introducing the CRFB Debt Thermometer (2023)
Note: This is an archived version of the initial CRFB Debt Thermometer. For the most recent thermometer, see this page . Fiscal policy has profound...