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The week of April 4 began with hopeful optimism as a bipartisan group of Senators reached a tentative agreement to replenish emergency funds needed to restock federal supplies of COVID vaccines, therapeutics, and testing equipment. With COVID cases rising…

WASHINGTON - The Concord Coalition today welcomed President Biden’s goal of reducing federal budget deficits but cautioned that the path of deficit reduction reflected in the administration’s newly released Fiscal Year 2023 Budget is based on optimistic economic assumptions and unlikely…

One of the most memorable lines in cinema comes from the 1975 Steven Spielberg film, “Jaws,” where after a brief but terrifyingly close encounter with the razor-sharp teeth of the eponymous mega-shark, a visibly shaken Sheriff Brody turns to…

National leaders play a dangerous game of policy “chicken” every time they defer corrective action on known challenges, hoping to address them later when it’s more politically expedient. But this “kick the can” strategy risks a slow moving cumulative…

We’re on the road again! As the U.S. economy regains its footing, policymakers must shift their attention to the pre-existing structural imbalances that have put us on a path of chronically slow economic growth and unsustainable debt over the…

If you blinked this week, you probably missed that the total federal debt reached $30 trillion—an historic high. Like aging Americans who bemoan birthdays ending in zero (30, 40, 50, …), this occasion marked the crossing of an important, albeit…

By any measure, this has been an eventful year on the budget front. As 2021 draws to a close, however, it is apparent that much of 2022 will be devoted to a substantial agenda of unfinished business left over from…

Transformational policies are not temporary policies. If Democrats truly believe the BBBA is transformational, then today’s CBO score is a more accurate reflection of the measure’s cost. WASHINGTON, DC—According…