Apr 12, 2021 | Other Spending
Maya MacGuineas on PBS Firing Line Discussing the National Debt
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on PBS FIring Line. She joined host Margaret Hoover and...
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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, 2021 | Health Care
Event Recap: New Ideas to Lower Health Care Costs
On Wednesday, March 17, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a virtual event “New Ideas to Lower Health Care Costs." The event was...
Apr 2, 2021 | Other Spending
What's in President Biden's American Jobs Plan?
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden unveiled the second part of his "Build Back Better" agenda – the American Jobs Plan – focused on upgrading and...
Apr 1, 2021 | Other Spending
Maya MacGuineas: How to think about infrastructure funding
Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an ...
Mar 31, 2021 | Budget Process
Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
Updated 3/31/2021: On March 11, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, enacted through budget reconciliation, which includes an extension...
Mar 25, 2021 | Taxes
Watch: Committee President Maya MacGuineas Testifies on Taxation of Corporations and the Wealthy
On March 25, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas testified before the Senate Budget Committee on whether...
Mar 22, 2021 | Other Spending
Ten Options to Secure the Highway Trust Fund
Congress must pass a new highway bill or extend the current one by October 1 of this year, and the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) itself will likely run...
Mar 22, 2021 | Health Care
Ten Options to Secure the Medicare Trust Fund
The Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI), or Part A, trust fund is expected to be only five years from insolvency and faces a $515 billion net funding...
Mar 18, 2021
Medicare Sequester Suspension Should Not Continue without Offsets
The March 2020 CARES Act and December 2020 Response and Relief Act temporarily suspended the 2 percent Medicare sequester, which has been in effect...
Mar 11, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
New Budget Projections Show Record Deficits and Debt
Now that the American Rescue Plan Act has been signed into law, the federal deficit is on course to exceed $3 trillion this year, with debt reaching...