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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A First Look at the CMS Estimate of the AHCA
The Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its score of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) today...
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Price Confirms Double-Counting in President's Budget
One source of uncertainty in the President's budget is how much savings it contains from reducing Medicaid spending. In testimony last week to the...
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Marc Goldwein on NPR's Planet Money: How to Get 3% Growth
Achieving 3 percent sustained annual growth would be incredibly difficult, yet that assumption is embedded in President Trump’s proposed budget. In an...
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Maya MacGuineas and Robert L. Bixby: President Trump’s budget is ‘incoherent’
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and Robert L. Bixby, executive...
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Marc Goldwein: Three Smart Reforms in Trump's Budget
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Commitee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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President Trump's Infrastructure Proposals, Explained
One of the key priorities for the White House has been infrastructure, with last week declared "infrastructure week" and President Trump unveiling...
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How Much Overlap is There Between the Trump and Obama Budgets?
We noted last year that President Obama's final budget might not be as much of a dead letter as many observers assumed. Though there was likely to be...
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Maya MacGuineas: Tough budget choices for Congress, the president
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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How the President's Budget Cuts Are Distributed
The President's budget includes sizeable cuts to federal spending to reduce deficits, but how are those cuts distributed? The budget shows that most...
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Judd Gregg: Throw the Hail Mary on Taxes
Tax reform is taking center stage. It is the gravamen of success for this Congress and president.
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Trump Budget Includes Meaningful SSDI Reforms
President Trump has been disappointingly reluctant to propose any changes to improve the solvency of Social Security's retirement program, but his...
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Resources for Infrastructure Week
The White House has dubbed this week "infrastructure week" to talk about the infrastructure proposals in the President's recent budget, including an...