Austerity is so out of hand that there are opportunities to reverse some of the most shortsighted and damaging cuts while at the same time reducing deficits.
Congress always intended to replace the sequester with smarter deficit reduction—then they slashed deficits but still left the full sequester in place.
Sequestration is already a disaster for the American people. Four key factors will make it even worse next year.
With the manufactured crises behind us, it’s time to turn to the real fiscal task at hand, namely reversing damaging austerity policies and investing in growth.
Attacking the U.S. Census Bureau today means that government and businesses will be less effective tomorrow.
Looming across-the-board federal spending cuts will undermine the economy, threaten our safety, and hurt American families.
The sequester will have significant impacts on many public health and clean energy programs.
Sequestration will inflict massive cuts on programs that protect our public lands and oceans—cuts that will impact all of us in a variety of ways.
With the current fiscal showdown and sequestration looming, gay and transgender Americans may be caught in the middle of budget cuts and tax hikes unless we work together to minimize the harm to this group of Americans.
Scott Lilly breaks down the potential implications of the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts scheduled for January.