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.

John Kasich: It’s finally time to tackle the national debt
John Kasich is a former governor of Ohio, former congressman representing the state, and director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget...

Reflections on the 2024 Ed Lorenzen Fiscal Internship
By Olabisi Omoniyi-Alake The time that I have spent working at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has been a transformative...

Maya MacGuineas: The Biggest Budget Deadline No One Has Heard Of
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Examiner , an...

Options to Raise Tariff Revenue
Note: (02/13/2025) We are updating our estimate for Reciprocal Tariffs on Countries that Impose Tariffs on U.S. Exports; it has been removed in the...

Kent Conrad: The Conrad Rule is the Answer to our Budget Reconciliation Woes
Kent Conrad is a former senator, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and a director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He...

Medicaid Savings Options
The Medicaid program – a joint federal-state program that provides health care to low-income populations – is projected to cost the federal government...

Typical Couple Will Lose $25,000 of Social Security from WEP/GPO Repeal
Lawmakers are considering the repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Not only would...

Event Recap – 2025: The Fiscal Challenges Ahead
On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted more than 130 people at an in-person event, " 2025: The Fiscal...

TCJA Extension Might Not Pay for Any of Itself
New data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that economic feedback may not cover any of the revenue loss and that TCJA extension might...

12-Month Rolling Deficit Rises to $2.1 Trillion in November 2024
From December 2023 to November 2024, the federal budget deficit totaled $2.1 trillion based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO)...

Options for Reducing the Revenue Loss of TCJA Extension
Extending the individual and estate provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) expiring at the end of next year without offsets would add $3.9...

Giving Tuesday
In 2024, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget sought to educate and engage the public, policymakers, and the media about the major fiscal...