Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesOpinion

House’s Reckless Balanced Budget Amendment Would Place Ever-Growing Share of Needed and Popular Benefits on Chopping Block

Balanced budget amendments are a highly ill-advised method for addressing the nation’s long-term fiscal problems, this ...

Balanced budget amendment fails to advance in House

The House failed to pass a measure that would propose amending the Constitution to require the federal government to have a ...
NationofChange

Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the chopping block

The amendment, led by Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, fell short on a 211-207 vote, below the two-thirds threshold required for constitutional amendments. Every Republican who took part in the vote ...

U.S. House tanks balanced budget amendment as national debt tops $39T

The U.S. House tanked a balanced budget resolution to curb the federal government’s practice of racking up trillion-dollar ...
Lexington Herald Leader

A nation living in debt: Why it’s time to finally balance America’s budget | Opinion

The United States needs a balanced budget amendment to avoid government shutdowns, says Congressman Jamie Comer. Getty Images Nearly every generation in American history has lived through a moment of ...
The Baltimore Sun

Should US adopt an amendment requiring Congress to pass a balanced budget?

Some lawmakers want to adopt a new amendment to force Congress to come up with balanced budgets to keep the country’s ballooning deficit from continuing to spiral out of control and risk a debt crisis ...