Jul 15, 2016 | Budgets & Projections
OMB’s Mid-Session Review Confirms Growing Deficits Ahead
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released today the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Mid-Session Review (MSR), which updates both OMB’s budget...
Blog | July 2016
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.
Jul 14, 2016 | Budget Process
Chairman Enzi Proposes Budget Process Reforms
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) outlined his recommendations for budget process reform yesterday based on bipartisan discussions in...
Jul 13, 2016 | Social Security
Rep. Ribble Releases Legislation to Make Social Security Solvent
Representative Reid Ribble (R-WI) along with a bipartisan group of cosponsors released the Save Our Social Security Act today, a bill which...
Jul 13, 2016 | Budget Process
Shedding Light on the Fiscal State of the Nation
Representative Jim Renacci (R-OH) along with Representative John Carney (D-DE) and 22 other original cosponsors introduced a bipartisan Fiscal State...
Jul 12, 2016 | Budgets & Projections
CBO Shows an Unsustainable Long-Term Fiscal Path
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released its 2016 Long-Term Budget Outlook, showing a clearly unsustainable long-term path for the...
Jul 11, 2016 | Economics
Scoring Clinton and Trump with Different Growth Assumptions
In our analysis "Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election," we compared the fiscal effects of the policies proposed by...
Jul 7, 2016 | Budgets & Projections
Marc Goldwein: Both Clinton and Trump Would Grow National Debt
Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote a guest...
Jul 5, 2016 | Taxes
House GOP Sketches Out Details on Tax Reform
The House Republicans continue to rollout several policy proposals/frameworks, recently releasing a tax reform plan that aims to reduce tax rates and...
Jul 1, 2016 | Social Security
Social Security May Be In Worse Shape Than Trustees Suggest
The Social Security Trustees made their projections last week showing the program's sizeable shortfall and its trust fund's insolvency date,...