Bipartisan Budget Briefing a ‘Good Start’ for Cooperation on Debt Reduction

Democrats and Republicans met for a rare joint briefing on March 8 to hear a briefing from the Congressional Budget Office on the outlook for the nation’s financial health.
The news, though sobering, was intended to form a common understanding of the facts that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hopes will lead to bipartisan cooperation in attacking what he calls one of the greatest problems facing the country, the national debt.
“I went to [Minority] Leader Kim Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to get us together to learn the dire straits that we are currently in and to work together. No one party can solve this. The country wants us to work together,” McCarthy said….}