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.
Correcting the Record on the Enzi-Whitehouse Budget Reforms
Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis, the Senate Budget Committee voted 15 to 6 to approve the Bipartisan...
PAYGO Tracker: FY 2020
The first rule of getting out of a hole is to stop digging it deeper. With deficits and debt set to reach unprecedented levels soon, lawmakers risk...
Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act Signed Into Law
Last week, the President signed into law H.R. 7010, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act, which the House and Senate passed on May 28 and...
House Members Promote a Bipartisan Framework for Budget Reforms
A bipartisan group of 60 lawmakers, led by Representatives Scott Peters (D-CA) and Jodey Arrington (R-TX), released a letter to House leadership this...
Maya MacGuineas Testifies at COVID-19 Fiscal Oversight Hearing
To ensure oversight of the trillions of dollars in economic relief authorized to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn, the...
CBO Releases Options to Shore Up Highway Trust Fund
Several of the country’s most important trust funds are rapidly headed toward insolvency and will run out of reserves sooner than projected due to the...
An Update on the Paycheck Protection Program
The Paycheck Protection Program is one of the larger and most well-known initiatives that has been created to support small businesses during the...
Charlie Stenholm: We will have to face rising national debt
Charlie Stenholm is a senior policy advisor at Olsson Frank Weeda, P.C., and a member of the Committee for a Resonsible Federal Budget. He recently...
Eugene Steuerle: This is not your grandfather's debt problem
Now that the covid-19 crisis has produced predictions that we soon will reach a debt-to-GDP ratio previously seen only once before — during World War...
What's in the $3 Trillion HEROES Act?
Updated on 6/3/2020 to reflect CBO's estimate of the HEROES Act. The House recently approved the HEROES Act designed to further address the public...
Maya MacGuineas Joins Fox Business to Discuss Federal Debt Projections
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business. She joined host Maria...
Tim Penny: Pandemic-related federal aid: Make it fast, but also make it prudent
Tim Penny is president & CEO of the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation and co-chair of the Committee for a Responsible Budget. He recently wrote...