$36 trillion national debt inspires new fiscal responsibility group led by Democrat

The advocacy group Concord Coalition has tapped former Rep.Carolyn Bourdeaux, D-Ga., to lead its new “fiscal responsibility” group aimed at lowering the country’s $36 trillion in national debt. Concord Action said they will lead a grassroots effort to achieve a “sustainable” national budget.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital ahead of the launch, Bourdeaux, the group’s president and executive director, previewed Concord Action’s plan to pressure Congress to balance the budget. “We are getting ready to launch Concord Action, which will complement the Concord Coalition and is intended to build on all the grassroots energy out there around the debt and deficit, to try to start moving the needle in Congress to bring fiscal responsibility and fiscal discipline to Washington,” Bourdeaux said. Bordeaux, who represented Georgia’s 7th Congressional District for one term beginning in 2021, worked on bipartisan legislation to tackle the national budget crisis during her tenure. She was a member of the Blue Dog Task Force on Fiscal Responsibility and Government Reform, a national group that says it’s committed to reducing the federal deficit through bipartisan policy development.Georgia had a Republican-led legislature while Bourdeaux led Georgia’s Senate Budget and Evaluation Office from 2007 to 2010.Bourdeaux played an advisory role to the Georgia State Senate in balancing the budget during the 2008 economic downturn.“I was director of Georgia’s Senate Budget and Evaluation Office during the Great Recession,” Bourdeaux said.

“I helped Georgia balance its budget during the worst fiscal crisis in modern memory.One message coming out of that is it can be done.

I was working largely with the Republican leadership to balance the budget.But when we did that, those budgets passed by broad and bipartisan majorities.

So this can be done through our regular democratic processes.I want to bring that sensibility to what we’re ...