#Discretionary Spending

Don’t look now, but budgetary gridlock on Capitol Hill is about to get worse. So is the deficit. With all the attention being paid to the partial government shutdown over funding for a wall on the Mexican border, it is…

WASHINGTON -- With a partial shutdown of the federal government apparently taking effect at midnight, Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby issued the following statement: This is absurd. Government shutdowns have become “regular order.” Apparently, no policy or dollar…

The Treasury Department’s final report for Fiscal Year 2018, showing a 17 percent ($113 billion) jump in the deficit, has drawn new attention to the nation’s worsening fiscal position and injected the issue into the midterm congressional campaigns. The sobering…

Today, Oct. 1, marks the beginning of the federal government’s 2019 fiscal year. Fortunately, there will be no government shutdown because Congress has passed and the president has signed five of the 12 annual appropriation bills for Fiscal 2019, along…

This post was written by Concord Coalition intern Rob Ryan. Months behind schedule, the House Budget Committee took action last week on the first step in the regular congressional budget process: approving a budget resolution. The plan aims to balance…

Congress and the Trump administration could save tens of billions of dollars by acting to improve efficiency and effectiveness in dozens of federal programs that range from Medicare to military purchasing to storage of radioactive waste, according to the Government…

The Trump administration unveiled its long-awaited infrastructure plan with great fanfare last month. While the nation has many infrastructure needs, however, the plan seems to be generating little interest in Washington. It’s not hard to see why. While the administration…

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…