The spotlight shifted to fiscal policy at a Fox News town hall program with Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg Sunday in New Hampshire when he responded in detail to a question from The Concord Coalition’s Tyler Sweeney. At the invitation…
New projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show that President Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year 2020 budget would increase the debt from 78.2 percent of the economy (GDP) to 87.4 percent of GDP over the next 10 years. The proposals…
WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said today that updated projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) highlight the need for elected officials and political candidates to focus on the nation’s worsening fiscal challenges. “While not surprising, the projections released today…
Federal deficits are rising so rapidly that many politicians appear to be throwing up their hands and simply ignoring the numbers. It is true that the necessary fiscal repairs would generally require hard choices and public sacrifices. There is at…
