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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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Coburn and Burr Add to Medicare Discussion
Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-NC) came out with a Medicare proposal today that adds to the list of plans out there to rein in the...
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What Will the Budget Look Like in 2022?
In our continued analysis of the President’s budget, we now move to a detailed examination of what the budget would look like at the end of the ten...
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CRFB Analysis of the President's 2013 Budget
Since the release of the President’s FY 2013 budget on Monday, CRFB has provided coverage of the President’s proposal through our FY 2013 blog series...
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A Deal to Forget on the Hill
Update: The House has approved the payroll-tax deal 293-132. Just when you thought the conference committee might start agreeing on specific offsets...
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How CBO May Score the President's Budget
Last year, when the President's budget used overly optimistic economic assumptions and various magic asterisks, we re-estimated their budget using...
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How the President Met the 2013 Cap
Continuing on in our blog series, we will be discussing discretionary spending proposals in the President's budget. The FY 2013 budget was notable for...
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What Will the Budget Look like in 2022?
In this edition of our continuing analysis of the President's FY 2013 budget, we will now examine what the budget will look like in 2022, the end of...
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Budget Reform Proposals in the President's FY 2013 Budget
This installment of the FY 2013 Budget Series focuses on some of the budget process reform proposals buried deep in the Analytical Perspectives...
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‘Line’ Items: Budget Day Edition
Big Day – Today is the big day in budget world. The White House released its fiscal year 2013 budget request. As you can imagine, CRFB has been busy...
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No Offsets? No Deal
It's no secret that the conference committee tasked with finding solutions for the expiring 2-month fix for the payroll tax cut, unemployment...
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Key Fiscal Metrics in the President's Budget
With President Obama's FY 2013 budget out in the open for review (see our initial reaction and analysis) we will now more closely examine many aspects...
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CRFB's Reaction to the President's Budget
CRFB has just released its press release on the President's budget, including some basic analysis of the fiscal trajectory. The budget includes...