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A welcome ray of hope pierced the partisan Washington fog last week when a bipartisan group of lawmakers outlined a new COVID-19 relief plan. Nine Senators - four Republicans, four Democrats, and one independent - joined the House Problem Solvers…


The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the nation’s health care system. Much of that attention has understandably been devoted to strategies for combating the virus, which has infected more than 11 million Americans, caused over 247,000 deaths, devastated the…


As an eager nation waits for state officials to certify results of the 2020 elections, Congress and the president (both this year’s and next) face a crowded agenda filled with urgent policy deadlines. While some political strategists predict continued gridlock,…


Preliminary budgetary results for the 2020 fiscal year, which ended on September 30, have been released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In the Monthly Budget Review for September, the CBO reports that the unofficial budget deficit for 2020 was…


Oct 13, 2020
On September 30, the federal government ended fiscal year 2020 with a budget deficit of $3.1 trillion. At an estimated 15.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), it was the largest deficit since 1945. On October 7, a fly nestled…


For too long now we have watched as the national discourse has taken a divisive turn. Bipartisanship is endangered, “compromise” a dirty word. This has made dealing with key challenges all the more difficult, including our nation’s unsustainable fiscal path. …


The Concord Coalition said today that new 30-year projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) demonstrate why Congress and the president should ensure that necessary near-term steps to support the economy in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic should not…


The last time the U.S. federal deficit was this high, as a percentage of the total size of the economy, was 1946. The debt-to-GDP ratio was 119%. There’s news that amid the pandemic the amount of government borrowing this year is…


This week, the Congressional Budget Office released its much-anticipated update to the 2020 budget baseline. The previous installment from CBO was published in March 2020, just ahead of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, the subsequent economic fallout, and…


The Concord Coalition issued the following statement today by Executive Director Robert L. Bixby regarding updated economic and budget projections from the Congressional Budget Office: Despite eye-popping near-term deficit projections, the more significant and troubling aspect of CBO’s updated projections…


More than two months after House Democrats passed their version of the next installment of pandemic relief for struggling Americans (H.R.6800, the HEROES Act), Senate Republicans and Trump administration officials finally joined the debate and introduced their own: The Heath,…


On July 29, more than 100 people participated in a Zoom webinar on the topic of “health coverage for all.” The panel discussion featured three policy experts on a wide range of issues, such as the fiscal implications of expanded…

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