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.
Mandatory Spending Continues to Drive Spending Growth
The deficit will rise dramatically over the next decade, from about $560 billion at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 to over $1.4 trillion at the end...
CBO's Budget Projections Show Unsustainable Fiscal Situation
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released their baseline projections, showing high and rising debt and widening deficits in the coming years...
Maya MacGuineas and Stuart Butler Publish Joint Paper Over Long-Term Budgeting
CRFB president Maya MacGuineas and Brookings Institution senior fellow Stuart Butler published a paper last week outlining a plan to create a long...
Maya MacGuineas on C-SPAN’s “Q&A”
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, recently appeared on C-SPAN’s “Q&A” and discussed a variety of topics...
Dave Walker: Washington’s chance to reform the status quo
David Walker is a former Comptroller General of the United States (head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office) and is a member of the Committee...
Budget Will Be Difficult to Balance Without ACA Savings
For the past three years, Republicans have proposed budgets with a goal of achieving balance within the next decade. However, that goal will be much...
Amendments to the Senate Budget Resolution Regarding the ACA Would Promote Fiscal Responsibility
Last week, the Senate began consideration of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution, which is primarily being used to create a legislative...
Senator Flake Releases "Wastebook: PORKémon Go" to Catch Federal Waste
Hoping to “catch egregious spending lurking in federal budgets,” Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) released Wastebook: PORKémon Go yesterday, highlighting 50...
Repeal and Delay Shouldn't Increase Near-Term Deficits
Last week, we estimated that repealing the Affordable Care Act's ("Obamacare" or "ACA") revenue and coverage provisions would save about $750 billion...
Full Repeal of Obamacare Would Hasten Medicare's Insolvency
Earlier this week, we released a report estimating the cost full repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, and the savings...
Different Approaches to ACA Repeal have Different Costs and/or Savings
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Washington Wire...
Video: Cost of Repealing the Affordable Care Act
Newsy Newslook made a handy video for USA Today explaining our new report on the cost of repealing the Affordable Care Act. The report shows full...