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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House Republicans Release Poverty Recommendations
The House Republicans' Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility released a report this week outlining recommendations for poverty...
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CBO Estimates Economic Effects of the President's Final Budget
In addition to producing its own estimate of the budgetary effects of the President's budget, CBO typically estimates the economic effects of the...
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Social Security Cost Growth Should Be Slowed, Not Accelerated
In a speech in Elkhart, Indiana on June 1, President Obama discussed retirement security, saying, "We can’t afford to weaken Social Security. We...
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McCain Amendment Would Undermine Appropriations Discipline
When the Senate considers this year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) is...
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Zika Debate Provides An Opportunity to Discuss How Emergencies Are Funded
Currently, Congress is debating if and how to provide emergency funding to fight the Zika virus. While the President has requested $1.9 billion in...
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Maya MacGuineas: Donald’s dangerous debt-deficit delusion
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, wrote an op-ed that appeared in...
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How Much Do Donald Trump's Tax Cuts for Millionaires Cost?
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently released a fact sheet on her campaign website that criticizes Republican presidential...
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Alice Rivlin, Queen of Washington's Budget Wonks
n the interview, Alice Rivlin discusses why she became an economist, her early years in Washington, her time directing the Congressional Budget Office...
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Gene Steuerle: Opportunity for All Isn’t Gonna Happen on This Path
Over the past 30 or 35 years, income and government spending per household have both about doubled, but working- and middle-class Americans have seen...
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House and Senate Move Forward on Appropriations
This year's deadline has already passed without a budget resolution coming from either chamber, but the appropriations season is still moving forward...
IRS Loses $400 Billion Per Year in Unpaid Taxes
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released new estimates of the “tax gap” – the amount of taxes owed that go uncollected. They reveal that...
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David Perdue & Maya MacGuineas: Repairing the budget process
Senator David Perdue, the junior senator from Georgia, and Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, wrote a...