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.
Eugene Steuerle: How Existing Budgetary Commitments Could Affect President Biden’s Domestic Policy Goals
The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession laid bare many of the needs of working families and children, as well as federal, state, and local...
CRFB Launches Suite of Budget Games
Today the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched Budgeting for the Future, a suite of interactive games related to the federal budget and...
New Poll Finds Americans Worry About the Debt and Want the Budget More Balanced Between Generations
A new Ipsos poll finds that a strong majority of Americans are concerned about the national debt and want federal spending to be more balanced between...
New Interactive Tools - How Would You Fix the Budget?
New Interactive Tools How Would You Fix the Budget?
Congress Should Spend Responsibly and Invest Wisely
Between the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan, President Biden has proposed roughly $4.45 trillion of new spending and tax breaks. The...
Senator Lummis Introduces Sustainable Budget Act
Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) recently introduced the Sustainable Budget Act with Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Rounds (R-SD)...
Erskine Bowles and Henry Paulson: Biden should embrace a carbon tax
President Biden deserves credit for his actions to date on climate change.
Kinzinger and Phillips Call for a Bipartisan Commission to Address the Deficit
Representatives Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Dean Phillips (D-MN) recently introduced a joint resolution to establish a National Committee on Fiscal...
COVID Relief Lifted Personal Income to Record Levels
Of the $5.9 trillion ($5.2 trillion net) of enacted COVID relief, we estimate $3.6 trillion was committed or disbursed over the one-year period...
What's in President Biden's American Families Plan?
This evening, President Joe Biden will unveil the third part of his ambitious “Build Back Better” agenda, the American Families Plan. According to the...
Reflections on the Ed Lorenzen Fiscal Internship
By Dominic Gatti It has been an honor to be the inaugural Ed Lorenzen Fiscal Intern, the position named in memory of a close friend and colleague of...