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Last Friday the Congressional Budget Office released its scoring of the President’s budget using CBO’s own baseline and economic projections.The bottom-line results confirm the overall composition of spending and revenues projected by the President’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB)…

Projections from the Congressional Budget Office last week confirm that the most powerful factors in the current budget dynamic are aging, health care costs and interest on the growing federal debt – all things that Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert…

This is post three of a three-part series on the developing consensus for the next steps on health care reform. Part One is here. Part Two is here. (more…)

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released updated numbers yesterday showing a short-term decline in projected deficits, but elected officials and the public should not be lulled into a false sense of security.“A lower deficit is good news but hardly the…

After being suspended earlier this year, the federal debt limit is scheduled to come back into force within the next few days, underscoring the need for bipartisan cooperation to avoid another round of market-rattling political brinksmanship later this year.Treasury Secretary…

While the House and Senate have each passed their own budget resolutions for the coming fiscal year, Congress now needs to move the regular budget process forward through conference committee negotiations aimed at producing a compromise plan.Concord Coalition Co-Chair Sam…

While Washington continues to struggle with its budget problems, state and local governments face growing fiscal challenges as well. These challenges will likely add to the demands on the federal government in the years ahead, complicating the already difficult task…

At a public forum in Wisconsin, local policymakers, students and others last week heard about the importance of civil discussion and bipartisan cooperation in trying to solve the nation’s budget challenges. Former U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker, Sen. Ron…