Jan 10, 2018
The Hill: Head of Nonprofit Watchdog Fights with Both Parties
Maya MacGuineas is the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She was recently profiled in an article by Niv...
Blog | January 2018
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.
Jan 9, 2018 | Other Spending
Sequester Relief is Too Costly to Add to the Credit Card
During the busy end to the year, lawmakers enacted a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded through January 19. When that CR ends,...
Jan 8, 2018 | Budgets & Projections
National Economists Club Speech: The Return of Trillion-Dollar Deficits
As lawmakers return for the new year after the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), they also face a new budget outlook with higher debt,...
Sizing Up Revenue With the Tax Bill Enacted
As lawmakers return for the new year after the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), they also face a new budget outlook with significantly...
Jan 5, 2018 | Taxes
Resources for Tax Reform
Efforts to reform the tax code are underway, and the legislative process is in full swing. CRFB has been tracking and compiling the scores of each...
Official Analysis Finds Tax Bill Will Produce Marginal Growth, Cost $1.1 Trillion
At the end of December, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released its final dynamic analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). JCT's analysis...