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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…

Although the tax filing season is over, the Senate Finance Committee seems intent on resurrecting the question of whether to extend certain tax breaks -- known as “extenders” -- that expired well over a year ago. That’s unfortunate. As the…

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…

Low interest rates on the federal debt have allowed the government to borrow more in recent years without seeing the cost of servicing that debt rise as a share of the economy (GDP). As the debt has climbed from 39…

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…

With growing threats from climate change and natural disasters, some lawmakers in both parties are discussing needed changes in how Washington budgets -- or to be more precise, fails to budget -- for disaster-related costs. “Planning for emergencies is not…

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…

There’s a familiar ring to the latest report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the nation’s fiscal health, and that is not a good sign. The new report reiterates GAO’s past warnings about the federal government’s budget problems and…