In partnership with WSB Radio’s Shelley Wynter from The Shelley Wynter Show, we took the Principles & Priorities budget exercise to Atlanta, Georgia, for an insightful event that brought together people from all sides of the aisle. “The conversations were tough,…
Budget Gimmicks Mask True Cost and Erode Faith in Institutions Now that the House has passed its reconciliation bill - the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) - that increases the Federal debt by around $3 trillion over ten years,…
In response to the House Rules Committee markup of a bill that could increase the national debt by roughly $3.3 trillion, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Executive Director of Concord Action, issued the following statement: "As the US House continues to deliberate on…
By Bob Bixby, Host, Facing the Future Click here to listen to the episode now This week on Facing the Future, Marc Goldwein, Senior Vice President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), guided us through the budget…
Even though Tax Day, April 15, has come and gone, Congress remains focused on tax policy – including extending portions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. According…
In response to the letter 32 Members of the House of Representatives sent to Speaker Mike Johnson demanding that the reconciliation bill contain a minimum of $2 trillion in offsets, Carolyn Bourdeaux, Executive Director of Concord Action, issued the following…
By Bob Bixby, Host, Facing the Future Click here to listen to the episode now This week on Facing the Future Ben Harris, Vice President and Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, joined host Bob Bixby to discuss his…
By Bob Bixby, Host, Facing the Future Click here to listen to the episode now This week on Facing the Future, Jessica Riedl, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joined me to discuss her list of the top 10…
In response to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Long-Term Budget Outlook released March 27, 2025, Carolyn Bourdeaux, former Congresswoman and Executive Director of The Concord Coalition and Concord Action issued the following statement: “Our budget process is in complete disarray.…
Key Points New report from The Budget Lab at Yale explores how higher deficits impact inflation and interest rates. The permanent deficit increase that the report uses as its hypothetical is roughly the same size as the increase that would…
With the recent onslaught of crisis-driven news—everything from 40-year high inflation, war in Ukraine, Supreme Court rulings, and mass killings—it is easy to forget some festering problems that lawmakers have ignored for years. These problems have not gone away…
