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At the time, military spending, including spending on homeland security, accounted for 54% of discretionary spending — that is, not-mandatory spending. But it accounted for only 16% of federal spending overall. "This is a common mistake," Robert Bixby, executive director of the centrist Concord…

The Concord Coalition said today that a tax and spending package set to be voted on in the House of Representatives is a stunning display of fiscal irresponsibility. The bill, HR 1865, would reduce revenues by more than $400…

For those wishing to take a deep dive into national health care spending, there is no better source than the annual report of the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Their report of 2018 spending was released…

Paul Volcker, 1927-2019 Paul Volcker, one of The Concord Coalition Board of Directors longest-tenured members, and one of the Coalition’s earliest and most outspoken supporters, died on December 8, 2019. He was 92. Bob Bixby, The Concord Coalition’s executive director,…

Over the last 27 years, I have followed The Concord Coalition’s initiatives on fiscal responsibility as I raised my family and continued my logistics career in central Indiana. In recent years, however, I became more than a passive supporter. I…

On November 15, The Concord Coalition and The Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Service hosted a panel discussion on legal immigration reform aimed at encouraging economic growth, titled “Immigration: Reform for the Future.” The panel of…

It’s official. The federal budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2019 was $984 billion, an increase of $205 billion from 2018. That was the grim news delivered on Friday, October 25th by the U.S. Treasury Department. The deficit increased as a…

The Concord Coalition welcomes the Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act (Trust Act), co-sponsored by Mitt Romney (R-UT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Todd Young (R-IN), Doug Jones (D-AL), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) in the Senate and Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ed…