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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.
Deficit Nearly $2 Trillion Over Past Year
The federal government has run nearly $2 trillion in deficits over the past year, based on monthly data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
Revenue Surge Comes to an End
After surging to a near-record 19.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last fiscal year, revenue has fallen to 17.7 percent of GDP over the past...
Maya MacGuineas on Washington Post Live
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently joined Washington Post Live to discuss the debt ceiling, federal...
House Appropriations Committee Publishes FY 2024 Community Project Funding Requests
In an effort to improve transparency around the appropriations process, the House Appropriations Committee recently centralized a list of Fiscal Year...
Maya MacGuineas on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show"
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently joined MSNBC's "The Sunday Show" with Jonathan Capehart to discuss the...
Maya MacGuineas on Fox News' "Sunday Night in America"
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently joined Fox News' "Sunday Night in America" with Trey Gowdy to discuss...
John Kasich and Timothy Penny: Balanced Budgets Don't Need to Be a Thing of the Past
John Kasich and Timothy Penny are former Members of Congress and a board member and a co-chair, respectively, of the Committee for a Responsible...
Putting the Limit, Save, Grow Act in Context
The Limit, Save, Grow Act would reduce deficits by about $4.5 trillion over the next decade, with $3.2 trillion of those savings coming from caps to...
CBO Scores the Limit, Save, Grow Act
Update (4/26/2023): The Congressional Budget Office released an estimate of the House Rules Committee amendments to the bill, reducing the savings of...
ARCHIVE: What's in the Limit, Save, Grow Act?
Update (4/25/2023): The Congressional Budget Office has released an official score of the Limit, Save, Grow Act; read our analysis of that score here...
Build Your Own Discretionary Budget
Each year, Congress must pass a new set of appropriations bills to fund the discretionary side of the budget and avoid a government shutdown . There...
Breaking Down the Proposals in the President's FY 2024 Budget
The FY 2024 President’s budget includes policy changes that it estimates would reduce budget deficits by $3 trillion over a decade, the net effect of...