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.
Medicare Advantage Costs Continue to Rise
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will receive an 8.5 percent payment...
Appropriations Watch: FY 2022
Updated 5/19/22: The Senate passed a roughly $40 billion Ukraine emergency supplemental appropriations bill on Thursday afternoon. The House passed...
Adding Up Aid to Ukraine from the U.S. and the Rest of the World
Policymakers are currently considering an additional aid package to Ukraine, with $41 billion of support split roughly evenly between military aid and...
CBO Analyzes the Economic Effects of Waiting to Fix the Debt
Waiting to address our high and rising national debt has substantial adverse consequences. High debt slows income growth, increases interest payments...
Marc Goldwein: Student Debt Cancellation a Bad Deal for 85% of Americans
Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...
"A Sacred Trust" Would Weaken Social Security
Lawmakers may soon consider Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John Larson's (D-CT) Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust (A Sacred Trust), a bill...
Means-Testing Student Debt Cancellation is Still Costly and Regressive
Amid criticisms that student debt cancelation would be costly and regressive, the Biden Administration is apparently considering means-testing debt...
President's Budget Would Add More to Debt With Policy Extensions
Last month, the Biden Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget proposal that includes many policy changes that would reduce deficits...
Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Updated 4/25/22: In early April, the White House announced an additional four-month delay in student loan repayments. The pause on repayments would...
House Insulin Bill is a Missed Opportunity
Recently, the House passed the Affordable Insulin Now Act (H.R. 6833), which would cap the cost of insulin at $35 per month for those enrolled in...
CPI Inflation Tops 8.5% Over a Year in March
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) jumped 1.2 percent in March, and is now up 8.5 percent from a year ago – the highest year-over-year increase in 40...
No, President Biden Has Not Implemented Historic Deficit Reduction
While President Biden’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget calls for $1.05 trillion of welcomed deficit reduction, the Administration has largely been...