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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Senator David Perdue Advocates For New Budget Process Reforms
As Congress rushed to pass a temporary continuing resolution to keep the government operating when the fiscal year begins on Saturday, a group of...
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A Conversation With the Candidates' Economic Advisors
We hosted a lunch conversation with economic advisors from the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The event "How Would...
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Senate to Vote on Continuing Resolution
With the deadline for avoiding a government shutdown approaching on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) introduced last Thursday a...
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Is Trump's Tax Cut the Largest Since Reagan?
During the first Presidential debate on September 26, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump said "my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald...
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Factchecking and Live-Tweeting the Presidential Debate
For more than a year, our Fiscal FactCheck project has been honing our expertise in budget, tax, health, and spending policy to evaluate the...
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Accounting For Growth With Trump's Fiscal Plans
Last week, we estimated that Donald Trump's policies would increase ten-year deficits by $5.3 trillion, resulting in debt held by the public reaching...
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Top Media Hits From Our Preliminary Update to Promises and Price Tags
We released our new report Promises and Price Tags: A Preliminary Update this week, finding that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s...
Event Recap: Budget Process Reform - Senate Perspectives
On September 19, our Better Budget Process Initiative hosted Budget Process Reform - Senate Perspectives on Capitol Hill. The event featured a keynote...
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Clinton Proposes New Taxes to Offset New Proposals
In recent weeks, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has proposed a series of new tax breaks for small businesses and for parents in...
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Gene Steuerle & Rudolph Penner: Restoring More Discretion to the Federal Budget
Dr. C. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is the Richard B. Fisher chair and Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and Dr. Rudolph G. Penner is an Institute...
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Getting Real About Paying For Trump's Tax Plan
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump announced significant revisions to his tax plan that would reduce its cost by about half, a change CRFB...
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Explaining Donald Trump's Penny Plan for Non-Defense Spending
Much of the attention in Thursday's remarks by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has focused on his revised tax plan, but another new...