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.
Event Recap: Fixing the Budget Process
As part of our Better Budget Process Initiative, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget recently hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill called...
CRFB Mentioned in Three Presidential Debates
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has been mentioned by name in three presidential debates over the past few months. This is a good sign...
Tax Day 2016: Charts to Explain our Tax System
Today is Tax Day! Our partners at Fix the Debt have republished their annual chartbook to explain federal taxes – including who pays them, what they...
Event Recap: McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative Recommendations Release
On Wednesday, April 6, the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative released its final recommendations and book of policy proposals dedicated to...
Maya MacGuineas: Our Debt Problem Needs Action—Not Empty Promises: 5 questions for candidates on balancing the budget
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an article that appeared...
Halfway Through the Year, FY 2016 Leads FY 2015 in Deficits
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review for March recently, so we now have data for the first half of Fiscal Year (FY...
The Obama Administration Moves on Business Tax Changes
The topic of tax reform made the news on Monday as the Obama Administration simultaneously took regulatory steps to further limit corporate inversions...
FAA Bill Should Not Turn Into an April Christmas Tree
Update: The Congressional Budget Office has released its score of the Senate FAA bill, estimating that it would reduce ten-year deficits by a small...
Is Sustained 5 Percent Annual Growth Possible?
Since faster economic growth would represent a boon for wages and the fiscal situation, a number of Presidential candidates have been promising or...
Interest Spending Looms Large in the Next Decade
In a recent blog post on The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire, director of Brookings Institution's Hutchins Center David Wessel outlines a major...
Blahous Tells it Like it is with Social Security
Voters say they want a candidate that “tells them like it is,” but as Social Security Trustee Charles Blahous describes, that may mean facing...
Can Donald Trump Pay Off the National Debt in 8 Years?
In a recent interview, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would pay off the nation’s $19 trillion debt “over a period of eight years.”