#Congress

The Concord Coalition welcomes the Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act (TRUST Act), introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) in the Senate and Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ed…

After a one-week delay, on April 9th, the Biden administration finally released a peek at their FY 2022 budget. In it, the president proposes to spend $1.5 trillion on base (regular) discretionary programs next fiscal year, an increase of $118…

For understandable reasons, the focus in Washington over the past year has been on the nation’s physical health, and its resulting consequences for the near-term economy, rather than on our longer-term fiscal health. A new report by the Government Accountability…

Sequestration is making headlines once again in Washington as federal lawmakers work quickly to avoid untimely reductions in Medicare reimbursements to healthcare providers – in the middle of a viral pandemic. And if one sequester wasn’t enough trouble, Congress must…

President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan, now passed by the House and set to be considered this week in the Senate, has kicked-off a vigorous debate about whether to “go big” or stay focused on those most in need.…

As policymakers put together a nearly $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, using the reconciliation process as the vehicle for passage, Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman has been explaining how the process works, restrictions within it, the political fault…

Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby recently wrote an opinion piece for the Seacoast Media Group in The Portsmouth Herald about the ongoing reconciliation process in Congress, COVID-19 relief legislation, and opportunities for a bipartisan group of 16 U.S. Senators to have a…

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said that today’s baseline projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) are a strong reminder that the budget is on an unsustainable path, not because of the massive short-term deficit spending incurred to support the…