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: 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...
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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...
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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...
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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Note: (2/4/2022): This analysis is now out of date.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...
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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Note: (6/16/2022): This analysis is now out of date.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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Marc Goldwein: The Prescription: Fiscal Policy for the COVID-19 Economy
Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently appeared on The...
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American Rescue Plan Could Set Stage for $4 Trillion of Debt
The American Rescue Plan Act is estimated to cost over $1.9 trillion through 2031, but the ultimate price tag could be twice as high if some of the...
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New Report Shows Troubling Outcomes for Short-Term-Education Programs
Yesterday, New America published a new report by Monique O. Ositelu measuring employment outcomes of students who obtained short-term-education...
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Bill Hoagland: Reconciliation, corrupted by Congress: May it R.I.P.
The current Democratic reconciliation bill and the 2017 Republican tax reconciliation measure have paid scant attention to the country’s mounting debt...