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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Maya MacGuineas: Trump is Wrong on US Tax Ranking, But We Still Need Tax Reform
Maya MacGuineas is president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently...
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CBO Scores the Senate Health Care Bill
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its score of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA). This is the Senate's version of...
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Do Temporary Tax Cuts Only Have A Small Impact on Growth?
While promoting tax reform, House Speaker Paul Ryan stated Tuesday that temporary tax cuts do not produce a large boost to economic growth: These...
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Quick Take: The Major Changes in the Senate's AHCA
Senate Republicans released their draft version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 this morning. This is the Senate version of the American...
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Build a Responsible Federal Budget With Our New Debt Fixer Tool
Now that President Trump has unveiled his full budget proposal and Congress is working on its own budget resolution, CRFB is launching a new tool that...
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Paying for the Senate's Changes to the AHCA
Senate Republicans are continuing work on their iteration of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), and press reports indicate that senators aim to make...
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Options to Help Pay For the Trump Tax Plan
President Trump's tax reform proposal could cost $5.5 trillion over 10 years, but many of the details that might bring the price tag down have not...
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Gene Steuerle: Replacing The Individual Mandate to Buy Health Insurance: A First Step To Compromise
The Trump Administration and congressional Republicans remain stalemated over how to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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A First Look at the CMS Estimate of the AHCA
The Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its score of the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) today...
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Price Confirms Double-Counting in President's Budget
One source of uncertainty in the President's budget is how much savings it contains from reducing Medicaid spending. In testimony last week to the...
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Marc Goldwein on NPR's Planet Money: How to Get 3% Growth
Achieving 3 percent sustained annual growth would be incredibly difficult, yet that assumption is embedded in President Trump’s proposed budget. In an...
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Maya MacGuineas and Robert L. Bixby: President Trump’s budget is ‘incoherent’
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, and Robert L. Bixby, executive...