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 —…
In response to the House narrowly passing the budget resolution today, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Executive Director of Concord Action released the following statement: “On its face, the budget resolution approved by the House today, this so-called ‘big, beautiful bill,’ still paves…
In response to the House moving forward to adopt the Senate Budget Resolution that will add nearly $6 trillion to America’s unsustainable national debt, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Executive Director of Concord Action, issued the following statement: “Congress must hit pause…
This week the Senate Budget Committee released a plan that would add nearly $6 trillion to the national debt and simply ignore the roughly $4 trillion cost of extending several expiring tax cuts because they are “current policy,” while tacking…
In response to the Senate Budget Committee’s recently released draft amendment to the House’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget resolution, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Executive Director of Concord Action, released the following statement: “The Senate Budget Committee’s draft amendment appears to be…
