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The United States House Budget Committee recently convened a high-stakes field hearing to confront what many lawmakers and economic experts describe as an escalating fiscal emergency: the nation’s rapidly rising debt and mounting budget deficits. Against the backdrop of sobering economic projections, the hearing focused intensely on whether the federal government should establish a bipartisan…

The United States House Budget Committee recently convened a high-stakes field hearing to examine the nation’s increasingly precarious fiscal future and evaluate the urgent need for a bipartisan fiscal commission. As lawmakers confronted mounting evidence of the severity of the federal debt problem—including the stark reality that interest payments on the national debt now eclipse…