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.
CBO Releases New Economic Projections
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new ten-year economic projections today, updating its projections from April. The latest projections...
A Plan to Save the Highway Trust Fund
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) recently introduced a discussion draft of legislation to improve the...
CBO Shows That Policymakers Could Make the Long-Term Outlook Much Worse
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a look at various long-term budget scenarios. Most notably, the report shows how much more bleak...
Three Measures We Hope the JSC Will Consider
The Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform (JSC) has an important opportunity to improve our broken budget process. Recent...
Maya MacGuineas: National Debt is About to Roar Back to Life as a Pressing Issue
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, published an op-ed with CNN. An excerpt is below. As a result of an...
Has the Recent Economic Boom Offset 88% of the Cost of the Tax Cut?
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed shared by the House Ways and Means Committee, Mike Solon of US Policy Metrics makes the argument that thanks to recent...
Growth Just Hit 4.1 Percent – Don't Expect It To Last
The Bureau of Economic Analysis today released its initial estimate that the economy grew at a 4.1 percent annualized rate in the second quarter of...
Ways and Means Subcommittee Examines Changes to the SSDI Appeals Process
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security held a hearing on July 25 regarding changes to the adjudication process for the Social...
House to Vote on $90 Billion of Tax Cuts
The House of Representatives is voting this week on three bills targeting health care-related tax provisions and expanding the use of Health Savings...
Newest Kids' Share Report Projects Further Decline in Spending on Children
Federal spending on children will continue its expected decline, falling to roughly 7 percent of outlays and less than 2 percent of the economy by...
Watch the Debt Fixer in Action
We just updated our popular Debt Fixer interactive federal budget tool with new options to reflect recent tax and spending legislation and the latest...
Congress Is Struggling to Produce a Budget, So Do It Yourself with Our Debt Fixer Tool
The federal budget is more than 3 months overdue and the national debt is headed towards record levels. Now, we provide you an opportunity to show...