Today three committees - Energy & Commerce, Agriculture, and Ways and Means - will debate and finalize proposals that will have a significant impact on the fiscal future of the country. For those keeping score at home, the House plan…
Nearly 30 years ago, in my very first week on the job at The Concord Coalition, I stood in front of the National Debt Clock as it ticked past $4.8 trillion. That moment — captured on the front page of…
By Bob Bixby, Host, Facing the Future Click here to listen to the episode now This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Executive Director Carolyn Bourdeaux discussed her initial reaction to President Trump’s “skinny budget” and outlined some trouble…
Even though Tax Day, April 15, has come and gone, Congress remains focused on tax policy – including extending portions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. According…
In response to the letter 32 Members of the House of Representatives sent to Speaker Mike Johnson demanding that the reconciliation bill contain a minimum of $2 trillion in offsets, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Executive Director of Concord Action, issued the following…
Following the release of the Trump Administration’s “skinny budget” on May 2, 2025, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Executive Director of Concord Action, released the following statement: “The Trump Administration released a partial budget today laying out their defense and non-defense discretionary spending…
By Bob Bixby, Host, Facing the Future Click here to listen to the episode now This week on Facing the Future Ben Harris, Vice President and Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, joined host Bob Bixby to discuss his…
Click here to watch the segment now Executive Director Carolyn Bourdeaux joined Soledad O’Brien on Matter of Fact for an engaging discussion on the national debt, fiscal responsibility, current strategies, and potential solutions. Bourdeaux discussed the consequences of rising deficits,…
By Bob Bixby, Host, Facing the Future Click here to listen to the episode now This week on Facing the Future we talked with Alex Durante, senior economist at the Tax Foundation and co-author of a running update called “Trump…
By Bob Bixby, Host, Facing the Future Click here to listen to the episode now This week on Facing the Future, Jessica Riedl, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joined me to discuss her list of the top 10…
Key Points: Tariff revenue to pay down debt might be appealing on paper, but uncertainty about the amount that would be raised and the duration of the tariffs should temper expectations. Further, economic analysts across the political spectrum have raised…
This week, our Concord team experienced Washington at its most inspiring — and its most exasperating. It began Wednesday afternoon with a meeting in the office of Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), where we introduced Concord’s interactive federal budget exercise —…
