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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Reps. Carney and Renacci Release Bill Improving Budget Process
This week, Representatives John Carney (D-DE) and Jim Renacci (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve the budget process. The Budget Integrity...
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Sanders Takes Aim at Generic Drug Prices in Medicaid
Earlier this week, Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Medicaid Generic Drug Price Fairness Act, a bill...
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Marc Goldwein: Feds Warn Transit Agencies About Funding Cut Off
Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He wrote a guest post that...
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Four Takeaways from the Solutions Initiative Plans
The Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative III produced five different fiscal plans that would improve the current long-term budget outlook. We...
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Repairing How the Budget Treats the Highway Trust Fund
In our recently released plan, The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending, we propose a variety of measures to support the Highway Trust Fund (HTF)...
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Time to Close Two Social Security Loopholes
With the Social Security trust funds facing a significant shortfall over the next 75 years and expected to run out of money within 20 years, Alicia...
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Discretionary Spending and the Sequester in the Final Budget Conference
The budget resolution conference agreement has passed both the House and Senate. While we previously wrote about the conference's deficit reduction...
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CRFB's Plan to Repair the Highway Trust Fund
With the deadline for extending the surface transportation authorization just a few weeks away and Highway Trust Fund (HTF) bankruptcy approaching...
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164 Ways to Reduce the Deficit
CRFB has released a new compendium of over 150 options to reduce mandatory spending and raise revenue. Despite declining in deficits in recent years...
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McCain Publishes "America's Most Wasted"
In an homage to former Senator Tom Coburn's (R-OK) commitment to bringing attention to wasteful programs through his annual Wastebook and similar to...
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Budget Process in the FY 2016 Congressional Budget Resolution
During the consideration of the FY 2016 budget, we continually wrote about the budget process provisions in the major budget resolutions as well as...
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The Basics of the Budget Conference Agreement
Yesterday, we discussed The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Budget Conference, where we showed how the budget conference agreement was a mixed bag...