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.
Maya MacGuineas: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz’s Magical Budget Math
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that appeared in...
House Budget Confirms It Takes $8 Trillion to Balance the Budget
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution that advanced out of the House Budget Committee last week keeps up the recent tradition of targeting...
Maya MacGuineas: How House Republicans Could Attract Bipartisan Support on Entitlement Savings
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote a commentary that...
House Budget Attempts to Set in Motion Savings and Process Reforms
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 House budget resolution released yesterday contains ambitious promises of deficit reduction to balance the budget within ten...
House Budget Would Expand War Spending Gimmick
The Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) designation has often been used to circumvent spending limits, and the budget resolution released by House...
Chairman Price Rolls out the FY 2017 House Budget
House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) today released the FY 2017 House budget resolution to formally kick off the Congressional budget...
Statement by Maya MacGuineas on the Passing of Former Congressman Martin Sabo
All of us at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget are deeply saddened by the loss of former Congressman Martin Sabo, a dedicated member of...
Two Committees Roll Out Mandatory Savings Package
Last week, two House Committees, Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce, released a package of bills that would reduce mandatory spending. The bills...
ARCHIVE: Analysis of Donald Trump's Health Care Plan
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently released a health care reform plan entitled “Healthcare Reform to Make America Great Again.”...
Ted Cruz's Tax Plan is a VAT
Senator Ted Cruz has repeatedly denied the claim that his 16 percent business flat tax as actually a value-added tax (VAT). Although there is...
Rep. Tom McClintock Proposes Changes to Improve Budget Enforcement
As House Republicans continue to discuss the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) has recommended budget process...
Marc Goldwein: Candidates' Numbers Must Add Up
Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a guest post that...