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April 02, 2026
Last week, the House Budget Committee held a hearing entitled, “The Best Metric to Reverse the Curse: A 3% Deficit-to-GDP Path to Fiscal Sustainability,” examining how reducing deficits to 3 percent of GDP would stabilize the nation’s debt and strengthen long-term economic growth. Read what top voices are saying: Ray Dalio: "I strongly endorse reducing the budget deficit to 3% of GDP because it is essential for preventing the United States from "going broke," which would most likely take the … Continue Reading
April 02, 2026— This week, the Washington Examiner published an op-ed by Les Ford, Senior Fellow at the Alliance for Opportunity, and Andrew McClenahan, Intergovernmental Board Co-Chair at the United Council on Welfare Fraud, highlighting the need to offset the cost of defense funding for Iran by targeting the extensive welfare fraud and waste in the federal government. WORD ON THE STREET Excerpts from the Washington Examiner op-ed: "When Congress returns from Easter recess, it will have one item on its ag… Continue Reading
March 31, 2026The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report assessing the success of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center (CMMI) from 2011 to 2024, in response to an April 2024 letter from House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and then-Health Care Task Force Chairman, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas). Chairman Arrington released the following statement reacting to the GAO report: "The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) was created to lower health car… Continue Reading
March 12, 2026
Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) published a joint op-ed with Rachel Greszler, Senior Research Fellow at Advancing American Freedom and Visiting Fellow at the Economic Policy Innovation Center, in The Hill. The op-ed calls for stronger state accountability to crack down on fraud and improper payments in federally funded state administered programs as the national debt nears $39 trillion. Read full op-ed here or below: "With our nation nearly $39 trillion in debt… Continue Reading
February 18, 2026
— An article published by the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board highlights the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) updated baseline, which shows our $38.6 trillion debt will continue to grow and the structural imbalance in our federal budget caused by soaring entitlements. WORD ON THE STREET From the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: The Trump Administration is boasting about its success in reducing the deficit, and give it credit for curbing what had been ballooning growth in discretion… Continue Reading
December 16, 2025
—In an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal, Chris Pope, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, warned that extending the expanded Obamacare subsidies wouldn’t just affect the small share of Americans who buy coverage on the exchanges—it could upend employer-sponsored health insurance for millions of working families. He argues that making the COVID-era expanded subsidies permanent would incentivize employers to drop health care coverage for American workers completely. WORD ON THE S… Continue Reading
February 25, 2025
Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) penned an op-ed in theWashington Examinermaking the case for hisTrump-endorsed House budget resolution that delivers on the President’s transformative America-First agenda with one comprehensive piece of legislation. Chairman Arrington in the Washington Examiner: “The House Budget Committee has taken a decisive first step in advancing President Trump’s America First agenda. By pursuing the 2025 Budget Resolution, we have launched… Continue Reading
January 30, 2025U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal highlighting how surging debt and resulting interest costs are threatening America’s economic standing and the historic opportunity for President Trump and congressional Republicans to restore fiscal sanity to Washington. Chairman Arrington in The Wall Street Journal: “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is concerned about America’s large and growing national deficit. “We have never seen this… Continue Reading
December 12, 2024Yesterday, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner sounding the alarm on the federal government’s unbridled spending habits and the need to restore fiscal responsibility in Washington. Chairman Arrington in the Washington Examiner: Via the Washington Examiner: “The Democrats’ spending spree in Washington during 2021 and 2022 sparked countless economic problems. Runaway government spending drove skyrocketing prices, draining household s… Continue Reading
