Feb 10, 2022 | Taxes
Gas Tax Holiday Would Cost $20 Billion
This week, a group of senators introduced ...
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.
Feb 10, 2022 | Budgets & Projections
How Would Higher Interest Rates Affect Interest Payments?
Interest on the national debt is projected to be the fastest growing part of the federal budget. We estimate, based on the Congressional...
Feb 9, 2022 | Health Care
Senate Finance Subcommittee Holds Hearing on the Medicare Trust Fund
The Senate Finance...
Feb 9, 2022 | Social Security
Ten Options to Secure the Social Security Trust Fund
The Social Security trust funds are expected to be insolvent ...
Feb 8, 2022 | Budget Process
Upcoming Congressional Fiscal Policy Deadlines
The next few years will include several predictable fiscal policy deadlines that will force congressional action. Many provisions providing...
Feb 4, 2022 | Other Spending
Ten Options to Secure the Highway Trust Fund
Accounting for the enactment of the bipartisan infrastructure law (formally, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act), ...
Feb 3, 2022 | Other Spending
The Infrastructure Bill’s Impact on the Highway Trust Fund
In addition to new investments in surface transportation, transit, broadband, energy, water, tax breaks, and other transportation spending, the...
New Report Shows Student Debt Cancellation is Regressive
Recently, Adam Looney, Executive Director of the Marriner S. Eccles Institute at the University of Utah and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in...
Jan 20, 2022 | Taxes
Policymakers Shouldn't Weaken Build Back Better Surtax
To help finance new spending and tax breaks, the House-passed...
Jan 13, 2022 | Health Care
Build Back Better Drug Reforms Would Lower Costs
The House-passed Build Back Better Act includes several reforms to reduce prescription drug costs for the federal government, seniors, and the...
Jan 13, 2022
What Does Student Debt Cancellation Mean for Federal Finances?
We've previously estimated that cancelling all federal...
Jan 12, 2022 | Economics
2021 Inflation Totaled 6.7 Percent
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released Consumer Price Index (CPI)...
Jan 6, 2022 | Taxes
Addressing Tax Expenditures Could Raise Substantial Revenue
While the House and Senate each has put forth...
Jan 6, 2022 | Taxes
Build Your Own Child Tax Credit 2.0
As lawmakers continue to debate if and how to address the recently-expired Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion from the American Rescue Plan, our...
Student Debt Cancellation Resources Page
Overview
Student debt cancellation has gained attention in recent years as a policy proposal to address rising student...
Dec 29, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
Our Top 21 Fiscal Charts of 2021
2021 was a busy year for fiscal policy, which gave us ample opportunities to conduct substantive policy analyses using charts and tables....
Dec 21, 2021 | Taxes
Build Your Own Child Tax Credit
As the year comes to a close, lawmakers continue to discuss if and how to extend the American Rescue Plan's one-year Child Tax Credit (CTC)...
Dec 17, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
CBO Scores the Build Back Better Act
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released cost estimates for...
