(Arlington, VA - Aug. 8, 2026) - Concord Action Executive Director Dr. Carolyn Bourdeaux released the following statement in response to U.S. Senate approval of a short-term stopgap spending bill that avoids tough decisions and instead punts their legally mandated…
(Arlington, Va. - Aug. 5, 2026) - The U.S. Senate Finance Committee met Wednesday to examine the PROMISE Act and other proposals for addressing Social Security’s rapidly approaching financial deadline. Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to be depleted…
(Arlington, Va. - July 31, 2026) - Fox News published an op-ed today by Concord Action and Concord Coalition Executive Director Dr. Carolyn Bourdeaux marking Medicare’s 61st anniversary and examining nine years of unanswered warnings about the program’s finances. In…
(Arlington, Va. - July 28, 2026) - Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), will present CRFB’s Fiscal State of the Nation at Concord Action’s 2027 National Citizens Debt Summit, taking place March 2-4 in…
(July 29, 2026 - Arlington, Va.) - As the national debt continues to climb closer to $40 trillion, Concord Action is expanding its field team to expand the call to act on our unsustainable debt to more communities, recruit new…
(Dublin, Ga. - July 24, 2026) - With the national debt projected to reach $40 trillion this fall, Concord Action National Field Director Phil Smith joined the Dublin Rotary Club Friday to explain how the country reached this point and…
Executive Director Dr. Carolyn Bourdeaux released the following statement regarding this week’s continued lack of fiscal leadership on Capitol Hill: “As Congress again stumbles into its traditional monthlong August recess, our nation’s budget remains in shambles. Congress needs to do…
(Arlington Va. - July 15, 2026) - Following the release of a roughly $95 billion House Republican spending framework - with no offsets - Concord Action is calling on lawmakers to show how they will pay for the package before…
(Arlington Va. - July 13, 2026) - As House Republicans prepare to introduce another reconciliation package, Concord Action is warning lawmakers not to turn this legislation into yet another vehicle for increasing deficits. With the national debt closing in on $40 trillion, Concord…
(Arlington Va. - July 2, 2026) - As we prepare to celebrate 250 years of independence, Americans face a much bleaker national milestone: a federal debt soon expected to exceed $40 trillion. In a new op-ed in The Washington Times,…
(June 9, 2026 – Arlington, Va.) -- Concord Action Executive Director Carolyn Bourdeaux released the following statement in response to today’s Social Security Trustees Report: “Today's report delivers an urgent warning that lawmakers across the political spectrum must take…
WASHINGTON — (June 3, 2026) — Concord Action today hosted its first-ever National Volunteer Debt Summit in Washington, D.C., bringing together dozens of grassroots fiscal watchdogs for meetings with key members of Congress and budget experts. The event kicked…
