New National Commission Would Focus On Balancing Federal Budget | Eastern North Carolina Now

Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the John Locke Foundation. The author of this post is Mitch Kokai.

    Nihal Krishan of the Washington Examiner highlights a new proposal from Republicans on Capitol Hill.

  • Senate Republicans will introduce legislation ... to create a new bipartisan national commission to reduce the deficit and balance the federal budget within 10 years.
  • Republicans are concerned about runaway government spending and how it will be funded after Congress spent nearly $6 trillion in pandemic relief last year while the Biden administration is gearing up to spend trillions more.
  • "We are on an unsustainable trajectory. We've become numb to the word 'trillion,'" said Sen Cynthia Lummis, a Wyoming Republican and the lead sponsor of the Sustainable Budget Act.
  • "At the rate we are going, the United States could soon spend more money on interest on the national debt than it does on defense," Lummis told the Washington Examiner before the bill's introduction. ...
  • ... The bill would establish within the legislative branch a new entity known as the "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform."
  • The purpose of the commission would be to find policies to improve the fiscal situation of the federal government in the medium and long term by balancing the national budget.
  • In particular, this would include "changes to address the growth of entitlement spending and the gap between the projected revenues and expenditures of the Federal Government."
  • Entitlement spending primarily consists of federal government programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
  • The national debt currently sits at $28 trillion. Furthermore, the Congressional Budget Office projected in February that the federal government's deficit for fiscal year 2021 is $2.3 trillion, which will be the second biggest annual deficit since World War II.
  • The commission would consist of 18 members chosen by the president, the speaker of the House, the House minority leader, and Senate majority and minority leaders.
  • The panel would be given the power to hold hearings, secure pertinent information from federal agencies, and seek help from certain congressional entities to conduct its work.

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