Reducing U.S. health care prices, the disruptive force of AI in elections, and reducing the federal budget.
Speaker McCarthy: We need a BRAC commission, but not to tackle federal spending House Speaker Kevin McCarthy recently announced plans to convene a bipartisan commission to tackle federal spending in the aftermath of the debt ceiling negotiations. He likened it to the commission used to identify unneeded military bases as part of the Defense Department’s Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. Dorothy Robyn argues that McCarthy’s proposal makes sense,but not for the reason he suggests. Read more | The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars. | |