A new report by Charles Blahous and Robert Reischauer, who up until last year were the public trustees of Social Security and Medicare, highlights the financial challenges facing both programs as part of a new initiative at the Bipartisan Policy…
President Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), Kevin Hassett, appeared before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. The nomination of Hassett, an American Enterprise Institute economist, received broad…
Leading policymakers in both parties, business leaders and prominent experts on the federal budget generally agreed at a Washington policy forum Tuesday that the United States faces difficult fiscal challenges and should act soon to deal with them. “Addressing our…
Amid all the debate in Washington on health care, taxes and other things, the congressional budget process for the coming year is already behind schedule and seems to have almost been forgotten. Congress has yet to even consider a Fiscal…
