#Federal Budget

Well into the fifth month of the fiscal year, the stand-off over 2015 funding for Homeland Security continues to highlight partisan divides. Senate Republicans failed repeatedly last week to persuade any Democrats to join them in moving a spending bill…

President Obama released his proposed budget for Fiscal 2016 Monday, setting the stage for a vigorous debate on the right mix of spending and tax policies needed to put the nation’s finances on a sustainable path. The $4 trillion budget…

New federal budget projections show that under current law $7.6 trillion could be added to the nation’s debt over the coming decade -- or perhaps as much as $9.5 trillion, if more realistic assumptions are made about future policy decisions.…

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said today that new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections show why the Congress and President Obama must try to move forward on fiscal reforms wherever possible in the coming year. (more…)

Tonight’s State of the Union address will kick off a new season of discussion and debate over the nation’s fiscal situation and possible budget reforms to curb the rising federal debt while still supporting economic growth. Ideally, the President will…

Former U.S. Senators J. Robert Kerrey and John C. Danforth today released an update of a 1994 commission report on entitlement and tax reform and called on Americans -- particularly presidential hopefuls -- to address the nation’s fiscal challenges. A…

Twenty years after the Kerrey-Danforth Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform issued its bipartisan findings, its co-chairs on Dec. 16 will release an update and explain why Americans today -- including the 2016 presidential candidates -- should champion broad fiscal…

Lawmakers continue to haggle over everything from immigration to a reauthorization of the terrorism risk insurance program as they approach a deadline this Thursday to approve long-overdue spending legislation for Fiscal 2015, which began Oct. 1.For the last two months,…