The federal deficit for Fiscal 2018 totaled $782 billion, an increase of $116 billion over the previous fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated late last week. While those numbers are troubling enough, they get even worse when shifts…
Today, Oct. 1, marks the beginning of the federal government’s 2019 fiscal year. Fortunately, there will be no government shutdown because Congress has passed and the president has signed five of the 12 annual appropriation bills for Fiscal 2019, along…
Tomorrow former congressmen David Jolly and Patrick Murphy will discuss excessive division and gridlock and how, through bipartisan leadership, the nation’s political systems could function more effectively. The program, “Let’s Fix Washington: Breaking Through Political Dysfunction and Faulty Fiscal Policy,”…
A few weeks ago, we discussed a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that showed its standard projections, which assume current laws remain in place, likely understate the projected path of debt and that if Congress continues certain recent policies, the…
