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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Health Spending Outlook Shows Faster Growth Ahead
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new National Health Expenditure (NHE) projections through 2027, showing health...
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Annual Deficits Could Hit $2.3 Trillion
Deficits are rising quickly under current law, as the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) recent budget outlook demonstrates. Under current law, CBO...
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How Much Will Medicare for All Cost?
Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a co-chair of the Medicare for All Caucus, released a bill today that would adopt a single-payer system, where...
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Tax Cut and Spending Bill Could Cost $5.5 Trillion Through 2029
The 2017 tax cut and the 2018 spending bill loom large in the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) outlook; the two pieces of legislation as...
SSDI Solutions Initiative Releases Paper on Developing Demonstrations Based on Lessons Learned
The McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative yesterday released the first of a series of papers on how to improve policies for people with...
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Maya MacGuineas: The Rise of Free Lunch Economics & the Growth of Our National Debt
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Tyler Evilsizer: Putting the Trump Tax Cuts Will Pay For Themselves Myth To Bed
Tyler Evilsizer is deputy policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for The Hill , an...
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Appropriations Watch: FY 2019
Congress passed full appropriations for the remaining seven appropriations bills for the rest of fiscal year 2019, and the president signed the...
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As Debt Rises, Interest Costs Could Top $1 Trillion
The fastest growing item in the budget over the next decade will be interest on the debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In this...
These 3 Parts of the Budget Explain 87% of Spending Growth
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) latest baseline shows that deficits and debt are rising unsustainably, driven by the failure of revenue to...
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Play Debt-O During State of the Union 2019!
President Donald Trump will give his second State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. ET. CRFB will be live tweeting the speech, providing analysis...
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Maya MacGuineas: How to Keep the Government Running When Lawmakers Fail To Do Their Job
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...