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.
Freeze Leaves Some Cold, Some Toasty
Today, CRFB released our Analysis of the President's FY 2011 Budget . We will be following-up here at The Bottom Line with shorter analyses discussing...
CRFB in the News
With the release of the President's budget yesterday, CRFB has received a ton of media coverage, including The Washington Post, Financial Times, CNN...
CRFB Policy Director to Participate In Politico Web Chat at Noon
UPDATE: Web chat is beginning and is now live. Today at noon (9am Pacific), CRFB Policy Director Marc Goldwein will be participating in a live web...
CRFB Comments on Administration Budget
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget today applauded President Obama for proposing a specific fiscal goal in his Fiscal 2011 budget plan...
Six More FDIC Bank Closings
On Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional five banks ( American Marine Bank, First Regional Bank, Community Bank and...
President Releases $3.8 Trillion Budget
President Obama released a Fiscal 2011 budget request today that would spend some $3.834 trillion next year and projects a deficit of $1.267 trillion...
Is Obama the Spending Terminator?
In a blog post, this weekend, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer outlined some of the terminations, reductions, and savings to be...
How Refreshing to Have a Plan with…Brace Yourself…Details!
Congressman Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future 2.0 is a standout accomplishment if for no other reason than that it deals with details. Imagine...
FISCAL FACT CHECKER: The Obama-Hensarling Exchange
CRFB decided to fact check the exchange between President Obama and Congressman Hensarling at the Republican retreat. Here is the transcript with our...
Note to Clemons: Freeze Won’t Hurt Competitiveness; Too Much Debt Will
Our good friend Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation wrote in The Washington Note, this week, that President Obama's proposed spending Freeze...
No Deficit of Politics in Debt Limit Vote
Like peanut butter and jelly, diet and exercise, and bourbon and bacon (or is that just us?) PAYGO and spending caps are best when together. You...
Broken Process: Authorizers Rely on Appropriators For Oversight
In yet another sign that the legislative process needs serious fixing, Congress last year appropriated $290.8 billion for programs that the House and...