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WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said today that while President Obama’s proposed budget would lower projected deficits and keep the debt stable as a share of the economy over the next 10 years, it would do so with a mix…

In its spending bill for Fiscal 2016, Congress seemed to acknowledge that medical research had been cut too deeply for over a decade. The legislation will boost that funding in the coming months. “But without reforms to address the basic…

A new report, released shortly before Monday’s Iowa caucuses, says that while all of the 2016 presidential candidates in both parties acknowledge that the rapidly growing national debt is a problem, most of their proposals to deal with it fall…

On the campaign trail, voters are hearing promises of big tax cuts from the Republican presidential candidates and of big spending increases from the Democrats. Meanwhile, back in Washington last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new…

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul reiterated his support for balancing the budget in five years in a recent Your First Budget interview. “I don’t think we can continue to incur so much debt,” said Paul, a U.S. Senator from Kentucky.…

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, in a Your First Budget interview, said recently her initial priorities in Washington would be to revamp the tax code and institute “zero-based budgeting.” The Your First Budget interview series is sponsored by First Budget…

There is an “unwarranted sense of complacency” about the federal debt in Washington even as it approaches $19 trillion, according to an op-ed by two prominent New Hampshire residents. “Ignoring the nation's growing debt burden has become a bipartisan pastime,”…

Former New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and private-sector leaders expressed concern about how irresponsible fiscal policies could harm the country’s economic future at a forum Monday in Portsmouth, N.H. “Getting something done on these issues…