Apr 5, 2019 | Other Spending
New Budget Cap Plan Would Cost As Much As the Tax Cuts
Earlier this week, the House Budget Committee reported a bill – the Investing for the People Act of 2019 – that would increase current law caps on...
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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.
Apr 2, 2019 | Other Spending
Proposed Budget Plan Would Cost Over $2 Trillion
In lieu of a budget resolution, the House Budget Committee has put forward a bill to increase discretionary spending caps by $358 billion over...
Apr 1, 2019 | Budgets & Projections
Last Year Was the Only Where Congress Did Not Vote On a Budget
Last year was a historically bad year for the Congressional budget process. Since 1976, it was the first time that neither the Senate or House voted...
Mar 29, 2019 | Economics
Was the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Tightening Unprecedented?
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) and former National Economic Council...
Mar 27, 2019 | Budgets & Projections
Tyler Evilsizer: Fiscal Negligence of Recent Congresses Must Be Dealt With Now
Tyler Evilsizer is deputy policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for...
Mar 22, 2019 | Budgets & Projections
Senate Budget Committee Sets the Stage for Responsible Budget Deal
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) has released his Chairman's Mark for the FY 2020 budget resolution, covering the next five...
Mar 19, 2019 | Budgets & Projections
The White House Projects the Debt Will Fix Itself
The Trump Administration has touted its recent FY 2020 President’s Budget as balancing the budget in just 15 years. However, additional budget...
Mar 15, 2019 | Budgets & Projections
Three-Fifths of This Year's Deficit is Policymakers' Fault
The budget deficit will be almost $900 billion this year according to projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). By our estimates, 60...
Mar 15, 2019 | Budgets & Projections
Debt Would Rise, Not Fall, Under the President’s Budget
The President’s budget estimates it would reduce debt to 71 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and deficits to $202 billion (0.6 ...
Mar 14, 2019 | Economics
Economists Agree: Deficits Matter
Rarely do economists agree on anything. But a survey this week through the University of Chicago's IGM Forum found that 42 top economists...