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Budget Process Badly Needs an Upgrade

Mar 12, 2018

A new joint congressional committee on the budget process held its first meeting Thursday amid bipartisan hopes that the panel would be able to suggest helpful reforms late this year. Certainly there is room for improvement. Year after year the…

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The High Cost of Stop-Gap Budget Measures

Jan 26, 2018

No sooner had Congress approved its fourth budget stop-gap measure in four months than lawmakers began talking about the need for a fifth one in February. On Wednesday the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, Majority Whip John Cornyn, raised…

Press Releases

Government To Reopen But With Irresponsible Tax Cuts

Jan 22, 2018

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition expressed frustration today over Washington’s need for repeated short-term stop-gap funding measures and the inclusion of policies in them that will further increase the deficit. “It's good that the impasse leading to a partial government…

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The Debate Over Earmarks

Jan 17, 2018

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are debating whether to revive the practice of earmarks after President Trump expressed support for reversing a ban that has been in place since 2011. The ban was originally touted as a way to crack down…

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Everything Needs To Be On the Table in Budget Negotiations

Dec 11, 2017

When it comes to budget negotiations, many interest groups demand that certain items be considered “off the table” and exempt from any changes. The reality, however, is that everything needs to be on the table for both economic and political…

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Sequestration Is a Bad Way to Make Budget Cuts

Dec 7, 2017

To reduce budget deficits, policymakers must make politically painful policy changes by raising taxes on constituents and/or reducing spending on services provided to them. Because different tax increases or spending cuts of the same magnitude do not always have the…

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Budget Process Changes or Trigger Mechanisms Can Not Substitute for Political Will

Nov 30, 2017

There is no shortage of proposals in Congress and in academia for improving the federal budget process. Given that the process has remained essentially unchanged since 1974, it may well be overdue for a facelift. Many of these proposals, such…

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Both Sides Are Guilty of Budget Gimmicks

Oct 26, 2017

Policymakers in both parties often want to take credit for responsibly offsetting the costs of popular tax cuts or spending increases, but without actually making the hard choices necessary to do so. That would require higher taxes or lower spending…

Press Releases

Congress Moves Budget in Wrong Direction With Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts

Oct 26, 2017

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said today that fiscal policy has taken a very negative turn with adoption of the 2018 congressional budget resolution explicitly calling for deficit-financed tax cuts. “In the face of a debt burden higher than at…

Press Releases

Senate Takes Misguided Approach with Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts

Oct 20, 2017

The Concord Coalition said today that the Senate, in adopting a Fiscal Year 2018 budget resolution calling for deficit-financed tax cuts of up to $1.5 trillion over 10 years, has abandoned fiscal responsibility and embraced deepening debt as a misguided…

Blogs

PAYGO is an Important Standard

Oct 18, 2017

Most people agree that current fiscal policies are unsustainable. It is thus a matter of common sense to require those who want to enact new tax cuts or entitlement expansions -- both of which would enlarge the structural deficit --…

Blogs

Congressional Budget Problems Create ‘Uncertainty and Disruptions’

Sep 26, 2017

Members of Congress often talk about the need to improve government efficiency, but recent testimony from an official with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is a reminder that lawmakers could help by simply getting their budget work done in a…

#Budget Process

Budget Process Badly Needs an Upgrade

The High Cost of Stop-Gap Budget Measures

Government To Reopen But With Irresponsible Tax Cuts

The Debate Over Earmarks

Everything Needs To Be On the Table in Budget Negotiations

Sequestration Is a Bad Way to Make Budget Cuts

Budget Process Changes or Trigger Mechanisms Can Not Substitute for Political Will

Both Sides Are Guilty of Budget Gimmicks

Congress Moves Budget in Wrong Direction With Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts

Senate Takes Misguided Approach with Deficit-Financed Tax Cuts

PAYGO is an Important Standard

Congressional Budget Problems Create ‘Uncertainty and Disruptions’

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