#Federal Budget

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reported improvements since 2013 in many problematic areas in the federal government but also noted growing concerns in veterans health care, information technology and tax law enforcement. The agency’s new biennial update on “high-risk”…

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…

WASHINGTON -- With the release of President Obama’s proposed budget today, The Concord Coalition again urged Washington to focus on policies that would put the federal government on a sustainable track. (more…)

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.…

The Concord Coalition and the Campaign to Fix the Debt announced today a joint effort to encourage public discussion during the 2016 presidential campaign of the nation’s unsustainable budget policies. The two nonpartisan organizations have a shared history of pushing…

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…

WASHINGTON -- 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 quickly address the nation’s…

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…