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Too Many Tax Cuts; Not Enough Offsets
Facing The Future

Too Many Tax Cuts; Not Enough Offsets

May 15, 2025
Special Guest: Marc Goldwein, Senior Vice President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB)
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High Tariffs are High Risk
Facing The Future

High Tariffs are High Risk

Apr 24, 2025
Special Guest: Alex Durante, Senior Economist, Tax Foundation
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The Inflationary Risk of Rising Debt
Facing The Future

The Inflationary Risk of Rising Debt

Mar 20, 2025
Special Guest: Ernie Tedeschi, Economics Director, The Budget Lab at Yale
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Reconciliation Bill on Climate and Health Care Passes While Inflation Shows Signs of an Ebb

Aug 12, 2022
Special Guest: Steve Robinson, Tori Gorman
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The Senate’s version  is much smaller than the original House legislation. It would spend approximately $740 billion to help reduce prescription drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries, preserve affordable health insurance through Obamacare marketplace exchanges, and invest in clean energy technologies…
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Making the ‘Case’ in Congress for Fiscal Discipline

Jul 20, 2022
Special Guest: Ed Case, Phil Smith, Tori Gorman
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This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with Representative Ed Case of Hawaii, a leader of the House Blue Dog Coalition, about his sometimes lonely job of convincing his colleagues in both parties to pay for the programs they…
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Budget Reconciliation Package for Biden Domestic Agenda Faces Challenges

Jul 15, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we once again prove the old adage that if you don’t like the way the political winds are blowing in Washington DC, just wait 5 minutes. In this case, our program this week focused…
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Social Security and Medicare Creep Towards Insolvency

Jun 15, 2022
Special Guest: Av Harris, Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we looked at challenges ahead for Social Security and Medicare. According to the latest reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees, we are creeping towards insolvency for both programs by the next decade.…
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Breaking Down the CBO 10-year Baseline

Jun 4, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robison, Phil Smith, Av Harris
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This week on Facing the Future, we relied on a panel of Concord Coalition staff to help us break down the latest 10-year Budget and Economic Outlook released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. I gave my own interpretation of…
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How the Younger Generation Views Fiscal Responsibility

Apr 27, 2022
Special Guest: Diane Lim
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This week on Facing the Future, we go back in for a deeper dive with the voices of our future leaders and how they would address the growing challenge of putting the federal budget on a more sustainable path…
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Sizing up the Biden FY 2023 Budget

Mar 31, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Policy Director Tori Gorman, Chief Economist Steve Robinson, and I took a look at President Biden’s newly released Fiscal Year 2023 $5.8 Trillion federal budget proposal, measuring the new spending and revenue…
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Facing the Future in America’s Heartland

Mar 23, 2022
Special Guest: Phil Smith, Dr. Josh Gordon, Ben Ritz
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This week, Facing the Future took to the road to Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where The Concord Coalition’s national field director Phil Smith helped run our Principles and Priorities federal budget exercise with students and local community members,…
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If Your Taxes Go Up, Will You Know It?

Nov 24, 2021
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This week on Facing the Future, we focused on the political environment facing President Biden’s Build Back Better Act (BBBA) now that it has passed the House and moved onto the Senate. Joining me in that discussion were The Concord…
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