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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Maya MacGuineas: No State Spared When Social Security Goes Insolvent
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Albany Times Union , an...
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Proposed Tariff Actions Could Raise Revenue by Nearly $1 Trillion
The Trump Administration recently proposed new tariffs on imports from 60 economies using Section 301, which allows the President to impose trade...
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12-Month Rolling Deficit is $1.7 Trillion in May 2026
The federal government borrowed $1.7 trillion over the past year – June 2025 to May 2026 – based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office...
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Marc Goldwein Discusses No State Spared on C-SPAN
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President & Senior Policy Director, Marc Goldwein, joined C-SPAN's "Washington Journal"...
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IMF Warns of Risks from Rising Debt
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released its semiannual Fiscal Monitor report, warning that risks to the global fiscal outlook have...
Marc Goldwein: Point: Suspending Federal Gas Tax Will Only Worsen Transportation
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
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Ways & Means Advances Anti-Fraud Bills
The House Ways and Means Committee approved several bills last week aimed at reducing waste, fraud, abuse, and errors in the federal budget as well as...
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Beyond the Gridlock: Bipartisan Fiscal Solutions
Given that both Republicans and Democrats are equally to blame for our dismal fiscal situation and even more dismal outlook, lawmakers from both...
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The Next Doc Fix is Coming
Congress has now kicked off this year’s “Doc Fix” process, an increasingly annual occurrence where they provide ad-hoc pay increases to physicians...
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Defense Funding Put in Context
President Trump has requested $1.5 trillion of defense spending in his Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget request, including $1.15 trillion of base funding...
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Maya MacGuineas Joins PBS's "Amanpour & Company"
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently joined Walter Isaacson on PBS's "Amanpour and Company" to discuss...
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Rising Interest Rates are Exploding the Debt
The 30-year Treasury note just reached its highest yield in almost 19 years, 5.2%, and other interest rates are approaching similar highs. This week...