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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Dan Crippen: Why the CBO’s health bill numbers matter — even if they’re imperfect
Dan Crippen served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1999 to 2003 and is currently a member of the board of the Committee for a...
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Trump Budget Spending Increases Aren’t All Paid For
Although President’s Trump “ skinny budget” pays for most of its defense spending increases with cuts elsewhere, one-fifth of the spending increases...
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How Much Will the Essential Health Benefit Changes to AHCA Cost?
Yesterday, we showed the manager's amendment to the American Health Care Act (Obamacare replacement) would reduce its total deficit reduction from...
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What CBO Says About the Updated AHCA
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released their updated score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) with the inclusion of manager's...
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What We Know About the “Third Prong” of the Republicans’ Health Care Plan
Update (3/27/2017): After publication, CBO released a score for H.R. 1215 - the Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017. This blog has been updated to...
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Maya MacGuineas and Robert L. Bixby: Trump's "skinny budget" gets an incomplete
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...
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AHCA Manager's Amendments Will Likely Cut Deficit Reduction in Half
The House Rules Committee released two manager's amendments to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday evening in advance of their scheduled...
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AHCA Saves Money, But Could Make Getting to Balance Harder
House Republican leaders have introduced an ACA replacement bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
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Obamacare Replacement Could Save $2 Trillion Over Two Decades
Update (3/23/2017): These numbers are relevant for the original version of the American Health Care Act. An amended version was released on March 20...
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MacGuineas Explains the President's "Skinny Budget" and the Debt Ceiling on NBC and Fox
CRFB President Maya MacGuineas appeared on NBC and Fox News yesterday to discuss President Trump's new "skinny budget" and the debt limit. On Nightly...
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House Health Care Bill Would Accelerate Medicare Insolvency to 2023
Despite the fact that the AHCA would reduce deficits, it would prove fiscally harmful in one area: Medicare solvency.
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Is it Time to Enact Postal Reform?
A bipartisan proposal aimed at putting the postal service on better financial ground has been gaining traction in recent weeks. The United States...