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.
The Importance of the Sequester
When Congress raised the debt ceiling in last August’s Budget Control Act (BCA), it mandated at least $1.2 trillion in further savings by 2021, from...
Let's Negotiate Savings Up Instead of Down
As we said earlier this week, the Super Committee needs to be finding ways to negotiate its way up to larger savings, not working to push savings down...
Approprations Update: No Drama This Time
After an eleventh-hour deal that included a dramatic showdown in April and a minor standoff in September, it's nice to see a continuing resolution...
Senators Kirk and Manchin Offer "Go Big" Proposal
Today, Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) called for a "Sense of the Senate" resolution pushing for Congress to "Go Big" on deficit...
Super Committee Can Keep "Go Big" Momentum Going by Calling for Another Stage
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and many others have called on the Super Committee to find two or three times its mandated $1.5...
Moment of Truth Project Highlights Reforms to Health Care Cost-Sharing and Federal Retirement
With the deadline for the Super Committee to come to an agreement nearly here, the Moment of Truth Project, a project of CRFB, has released two new...
MY View: Maya MacGuineas November 2011
CRFB president Maya MacGuineas just wrote an essay featured in the Ripon Forum. She writes that the debate over whether the "debt crisis" or the "jobs...
Roll Call Highlights CRFB's Commitment to a Bipartisan Solution
It's clear that any solution to control our rising debt will have to be bipartisan, not only to enact savings put to see them through and ensure they...
My View: Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles
Today in the Washington Post, Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs and CRFB Board Members Al Simpson and Erskine Bowles wrote an op-ed titled, "The Super...
Lawmakers Reach Across the Aisle, and Houses, to Support Go Big
A group of legislators today staged a rare bipartisan, bicameral show of strength to support the Super Committee and encourage it to “ Go Big.” At a...
Mark Zandi Joins Announcement Effect Club
Yesterday, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi penned an article in Politico about the various possible outcomes of the looming Super...
A Final Bipartisan, Bicameral Push to Go Big
Today at 10:30 am ET, Republican and Democratic lawmakers from both the House and the Senate will be holding a press conference pushing Go Big in a...