WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition expressed frustration today over Washington’s need for repeated short-term stop-gap funding measures and ...
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are debating whether to revive the practice of earmarks after President Trump expressed support ...
When it comes to budget negotiations, many interest groups demand that certain items be considered “off the table” ...
To reduce budget deficits, policymakers must make politically painful policy changes by raising taxes on constituents and/or reducing ...
There is no shortage of proposals in Congress and in academia for improving the federal budget process. Given ...
Policymakers in both parties often want to take credit for responsibly offsetting the costs of popular tax cuts ...
WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said today that fiscal policy has taken a very negative turn with adoption ...
The Concord Coalition said today that the Senate, in adopting a Fiscal Year 2018 budget resolution calling for ...
Most people agree that current fiscal policies are unsustainable. It is thus a matter of common sense to ...
Members of Congress often talk about the need to improve government efficiency, but recent testimony from an official ...
The official federal budget process was established in 1974 by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. In ...
Federal spending can be divided into three main categories. The first category is mandatory spending, which is spending ...
