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.
Options to Pay For the American Jobs Plan
President Biden's American Jobs Plan would cost about $2.65 trillion over the next decade. By our estimates – and before considering pay-fors – this...
Maya MacGuineas on PBS Firing Line Discussing the National Debt
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on PBS Firing Line. She joined host Margaret Hoover and former...
Event Recap: New Ideas to Lower Health Care Costs
On Wednesday, March 17, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a virtual event “ New Ideas to Lower Health Care Costs." The event was...
What's in President Biden's American Jobs Plan?
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden unveiled the second part of his "Build Back Better" agenda – the American Jobs Plan – focused on upgrading and...
Maya MacGuineas: How to think about infrastructure funding
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
Maya MacGuineas: There's a blatantly obvious way for the US to fight climate change and pay for new infrastructure
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
Watch: Committee President Maya MacGuineas Testifies on Taxation of Corporations and the Wealthy
On March 25, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the Senate Budget Committee on whether wealthy...
ARCHIVE: Ten Options to Secure the Highway Trust Fund
Note: (2/4/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which includes new projections of...
ARCHIVE: Ten Options to Secure the Medicare Trust Fund
Note: (6/16/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which includes new projections...
Medicare Sequester Suspension Should Not Continue without Offsets
The March 2020 CARES Act and December 2020 Response and Relief Act temporarily suspended the 2 percent Medicare sequester, which has been in effect...
New Budget Projections Show Record Deficits and Debt
Now that the American Rescue Plan Act has been signed into law, the federal deficit is on course to exceed $3 trillion this year, with debt reaching a...
Understanding the $1 Trillion in Unspent COVID Relief Funding
The Senate-passed American Rescue Plan will deliver nearly $2 trillion of additional COVID relief on top of the $4 trillion already authorized. Yet...