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.
Marc Goldwein: Here are realistic goals for Congress to get a grip on national debt
Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
CBO's Budget Options to Improve Trust Fund Solvency
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published its latest Options for Reducing the Deficit reports, outlining 76 policy options across two...
CBO: Only a Decade Until Social Security Insolvency
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released detailed Social Security projections finding that the trust funds are headed for insolvency by...
New Study Finds Student Loan Pause is Regressive
A recent analysis by Diego Briones, Sarah Turner, and Eileen Powell of the University of Virginia found that the current student loan payment pause...
Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Updated 1/18/2023: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a letter to Congressional leaders late last week with updated deadlines for action on the debt...
Alice Rivlin’s "Divided We Fall" Offers Way Forward for the Country
We at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget continue to mourn the loss of Alice Rivlin, a former board member of the Committee and the...
What Would It Take to Balance the Budget?
It's encouraging that many in Congress are focusing more on our unsustainable fiscal situation and want a plan to improve the nation's fiscal outlook...
Chris Towner: Three Charts That Tell America’s Troubling Fiscal Tale
Chris Towner is policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for Inside Sources, an excerpt...
IRS Funding Repeal Could Cost Over $100 Billion, Encourage Tax Cheating
1/9 Update: CBO released a score of the bill, incorporated below. The House is likely to vote today on a bill that would rescind roughly $70 billion...
FY 2023 Omnibus Means Over $700 Billion Boost to Baseline Spending
The recently-passed Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 omnibus appropriations package will substantially boost appropriations levels this fiscal year and into the...
Congress Approved $113 Billion of Aid to Ukraine in 2022
Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine less than one year ago, Congress has approved more than $113 billion of aid and military assistance to...
Appropriations Watch: FY 2023
Updated 1/3/2023: The President signed the FY 2023 omnibus appropriations bill on Thursday, Dec. 29. The House passed the measure by a 221-205-1 vote...