#Federal Budget

UPDATED DECEMBER 16**A video of the program can be viewed here. (more…)

With federal spending legislation set to expire next week, appropriators continue to work on a tardy “omnibus” plan for the rest of Fiscal 2015. Republican leaders are weighing their options for using the spending bill in some way short of…

Congressional appropriators are continuing to negotiate on legislation to fund the government in Fiscal 2015, which began Oct. 1. Since then a stop-gap measure has kept the government open by largely continuing funding at Fiscal 2014 levels. But that measure,…

With the contentious mid-term elections over, elected officials should look forward to seize opportunities for bipartisan compromise to reduce projected deficits and meet at least some of the nation’s other fiscal challenges. Three experts on the federal budget discussed such…

Updated November 14 WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition will host a panel discussion this Friday on Capitol Hill about opportunities for fiscal reform in the next Congress. The one-hour program, open to the public, will feature three of the nation’s…

Last Wednesday, President Obama requested approximately $6.2 billion to combat the Ebola epidemic. As Congress examines and debates this proposal, it is an important opportunity to reexamine our government’s budgetary policies. (more…)

Life expectancy at birth in the United States continues to climb, reaching a record high of 78.8 years in 2012, according the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). That figure is 0.1 year higher than in 2011, according to the…

The administration has confirmed that the government borrowed substantially less than in 2013. But this borrowing still pushed the federal debt to well over $17.8 trillion, and the government remains on track to boost that total by $7.2 trillion or…