This past Thursday and Friday, I had the privilege of visiting the University of Iowa in Iowa City to engage with students, faculty, and community members on the pressing issues surrounding our nation’s fiscal policy. Hosted in collaboration with the…
This week I had the privilege of traveling to Carrollton, Georgia, to visit the University of West Georgia and facilitate Principles and Priorities, The Concord Coalition’s interactive federal budget exercise, with students from Professor Mary Kassis’s public finance class. Over…
This past week, undergraduate students from across the country gathered to present in-depth budget proposals to improve the nation’s long-term fiscal outlook– and they did not disappoint. Held against the backdrop of rising national debt and ongoing congressional debates over…
Concord Coalition Executive Director Carolyn Bourdeaux, Senior Advisor Bob Bixby, and former Chief Economist Steven Robinson joined a recent statement with budget experts from across partisan divides who agree on one thing: how the costs and savings of legislation are…
In my role as National Field Director for The Concord Coalition, I’ve had the privilege of traveling to all 50 states and visiting countless college campuses across the country to facilitate our signature federal budget exercise, Principles and Priorities. From…
On March 28, President Biden released his budget proposal for the upcoming 2023 fiscal year. Though it has little chance of being enacted in its entirety, the plan will shape the contours of the final spending and revenue policies…
Presidential budgets are designed to highlight an administration’s budgetary priorities, how they would affect the economy and how it all adds up. Budgets should be as transparent as possible so that members of Congress, the public and the media…
Two deadlines converge by coincidence this year. They are not related to one another and the precise consequences of failing to deal with them in a timely manner are different. Missing either of the deadlines, however, has the potential to…
The official federal budget process was established in 1974 by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. The budget process begins in February, when the president is supposed to submit his plan to Congress after discussions with federal department…