President-elect Donald Trump and the new Congress have many challenges to tackle. Hovering over all of them is our nation’s unsustainable fiscal policy. New proposals, whether on the spending or tax side of the budget, will not be credible if…
Once again, federal lawmakers have turned to a familiar tactic to keep the government operating and delay significant decisions to a later date: the Continuing Resolution (CR), a stopgap measure that generally extends federal funding at current levels. The House…
How the incoming Trump administration handles health care policy is perhaps the most consequential question hanging over the nation’s budgetary outlook. That’s why policy analysts are scrambling to read the tea leaves on health care amid conflicting signals. Republicans seem…
Voters are going to the polls today without sufficient information from the presidential candidates about how they would deal with the nation’s growing debt and unsustainable fiscal path. Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby writes in a recent Ripon…
