Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling
Note: We have updated this Q&A. A new version is available here.
Attention is turning towards raising the federal debt ceiling, which will be...
The Deficit Challenge
Q&A: Everything You Should Know About the Debt Ceiling
March 2017 Note: We have updated this Q&A. A new version is available here.
Still Waiting For a Serious Focus on Fiscal Policy in the Election Debate
As the GOP primary season moves along to New Hampshire, we continue to look for signs that the candidates are at least as concerned with the country...
Path to Debt Stabilization: A Comparison of Debt Triggers
The President’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction included a detailed legislative proposal intended to enforce a declining path...
Spending Challenge: Heritage Foundation's $343 Billion Proposal
The Heritage Foundation recently came out with a detailed paper with over $300 billion in spending cuts that can be put in place in FY 2012. Their...
Congressman Eric Cantor Introduces YouCut
Yesterday, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) launched a new project - YouCut. YouCut allows people to vote online or from their cell phones on...
May 12, 2010 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Health Care| Social Security| Taxes
Pearlstein Comes Out with His Own Fiscal Plan
Today in the Washington Post, Steven Pearlstein took the "Deficit Challenge", proposing his own plan on how to reduce future deficits...
Rethinking TRICARE Benefits
Admiral Roughead (Navy), General Conway, (Marine Corps) and Admiral Allen (Coast Guard) all took the spending challenge today, arguing that retired...
May 3, 2010 | Blog Paper Press Release | Budgets & Projections| Health Care| Social Security| Taxes| Other Spending
CAP Takes the Spending Challenge
The Center for American Progress recently discussed what it would take to meet the President's fiscal goal of a primary balance in 2015, or finding...
Apr 26, 2010 | Blog Paper Press Release
Obama Signs Up for the Spending Challenge
Last week, the President said “my first priority is to figure out how can we reduce wasteful spending so that, you know, we have a baseline of...