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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JCT Projects Tax Expenditures Will Be $2.3T in 2026
The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) recently published their latest estimates of individual and corporate tax expenditures. In total, JCT projects...
Student Loan Costs Drop to Near Record Lows After Reconciliation Reforms
Note: This analysis has been updated from the original version to better reflect the effect that the Biden SAVE plan had on subsidy rates over time...
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Maya MacGuineas: The Time to Start Voting About Social Security is Now
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Dallas Morning News, the...
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12-Month Rolling Deficit is $1.6 Trillion in January 2026
The federal government has borrowed $1.6 trillion over the past 12 months based on the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
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Blue Dogs Endorse 3% Resolution
On February 5, the Blue Dog Coalition endorsed a recently introduced resolution that supports a 3% deficit-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) target. The...
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George Will Highlights Potential Dangerous Path Ahead
In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, columnist George Will writes about the six paths to a fiscal disaster outlined in our recent paper, “...
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Marc Goldwein Discusses Potential Fiscal Crises on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal"
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President & Senior Policy Director, Marc Goldwein, joined C-SPAN's "Washington Journal"...
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ACA Subsidy Extension Tracker
With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced subsidies set to expire soon, several policymakers have proposed plans to extend the enhancements. You can...
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Event Recap: Fourth Annual Health Solutions Summit
Despite a recent ice storm, over 200 people turned out for hot chocolate and health policy on January 28, 2026 for the Committee for a Responsible...
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Congress Could End Government Shutdown Drama Once and For All
Government funding will expire on January 30, 2026, at which point agencies funded under six of the 12 appropriations bills currently operating under...
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Bill Frist and G. William Hoagland: Reforming the reconciliation process
G. William Hoagland is Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He...
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New Data Suggests MA Overpayments of $1.3 Trillion Over the Next Decade
Update 3/5/26: We have updated our estimate for Medicare Advantage (MA) overpayments using the most recent February 2026 CBO baseline . We now find MA...