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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Bipartisan Budget Act Means the Return of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Lawmakers have passed a budget deal that will increase deficits by $320 billion over a decade or almost $420 billion with interest and sets the stage...
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Budget Deal Would Bust Original BCA Caps
The budget deal currently being considered by Congress would increase discretionary spending caps over the next two years by $165 billion for defense...
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Budget Deal Could Ultimately Add $2 Trillion in Debt
The budget deal lawmakers have agreed to would increase discretionary spending above and beyond repeal of the sequester and the caps set in law under...
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CBO Finds Budget Deal Will Cost $320 Billion
The Congressional Budget Office has released a series of estimates for the budget deal announced yesterday. The deal would add $320 billion to...
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Budget Deal Would Assure Permanent Trillion-Dollar Deficits
Note (2/9/2018): We have published an update to this blog reflecting passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. It is posted here . Lawmakers...
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MacGuineas Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
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Post-State of the Union Fact Check Roundup
The President's first State of the Union address included several claims related to the recently passed tax legislation, including a few repeat claims...
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Facebook Page Remembering Ed Lorenzen
In order to provide information on Ed Lorenzen's tributes and arrangements, we have set up a public Facebook page that will be constantly updated with...
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Debt-O is Back for the State of the Union Address!
President Donald Trump will give his first State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. ET. CRFB will be live tweeting the speech, providing analysis...
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Washington Post: In a house fire, America loses a devoted servant
Following the untimely death of Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget senior advisor Ed Lorenzen and his son, Michael, The Washington Post's...
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Maya MacGuineas: Wake Up: The Current Fiscal Free-for-All is Untenable
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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IMF: Tax Bill's Boost to Growth is Short-Term
This week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a new estimate of economic growth, revising their short-term estimate upwards because of the...