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With the recent onslaught of crisis-driven news—everything from 40-year high inflation, war in Ukraine, Supreme Court rulings, and mass killings—it is easy to forget some festering problems that lawmakers have ignored for years. These problems have not gone away…

Thirty years ago when The Concord Coalition began advocating fiscal and generational responsibility it was already clear that climate change posed a serious threat to the planet. There was not, however, much discussion about how climate change might affect…

"The Build Back Better Act (BBBA) is now on the back burner. Can it be salvaged? The answer may come down to whether Democrats want to enact something that is transformational, as they say they want, or merely temporary, which…

"The Build Back Better Act (BBBA), now on its way to the Senate, is often described by proponents as a fully paid for transformational investment in our nation’s future. Its success, however, in either being fully paid for or transformational…

"The Senate’s bipartisan physical infrastructure bill is a triumph of congressional dealmaking, the sort of thing President Biden extols and the likes of which we have not seen in recent years. Compromises were made on scope, cost and offsets. If it eventually makes its…

"Current figures suggest that the federal government is digging America into a hole. According to CBO’s baseline projections—which don’t account for Mr. Biden’s proposals—interest costs will surpass spending for Social Security by 2045 and will consume nearly half of…

The last time the U.S. federal deficit was this high, as a percentage of the total size of the economy, was 1946. The debt-to-GDP ratio was 119%. There’s news that amid the pandemic the amount of government borrowing this year is…

(Kevin) Wiley is involved with the Concord Coalition a national, nonpartisan organization dedicated to fiscal responsibility and reform.