the debt ceiling become a political cudgel rather than some sort of useful policy tool.
Congress has the authority to lift the debt ceiling to safeguard the full faith and credit of the United States and the ...
Given recent history, it is clear to me that the best way to do so is to eliminate the debt limit entirely.
I wish I shared that 100 percent certainty. One of the reasons why I started working on this seven years ago was because...
It would vest in the Treasury secretary the authority to raise the debt ceiling while still reserving to Congress the au...
having the debt ceiling gives--has already taken the power of the purse away from us.
I teamed up with Congressman Jodey Arrington in the Bipartisan Policy Center to craft and introduce the Responsible Budg...
the one justification for keeping the debt ceiling... is that it is an effective extortion measure.
What’s interesting, though, is that Donald Trump has only consolidated his control over the GOP, which now operates like...
Well, all of it flows out of the big lie. Of course, if you start with the premise that Donald Trump won, then of course...
So, you’ve got an entire political party which has positioned itself outside of the constitutional order, which is attac...
Over the years, Democrats, Republicans, labor unions, business leaders, and economists have endorsed the notion that at ...
It seems Budget Democrats are working at cross-purposes.
They know that they can't purchase as many goods today as what they could a year ago and it is because of inflation.
The weaponization of the debt limit puts our country at risk.
America is one of the few countries in the world that has a debt limit and none of them go through the crises that we do...
I'm concerned about the direction of the party in the country. And I'll make a decision about 2024 after I finished this...
Are we encouraging our European partners to do the same, and would that unity prove to be more effective in trying to ac...