Former Dem Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux to steer new ‘fiscal accountability’ group

FIRST ON FOX: The advocacy group Harmony Coalition has tapped former Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, D-Ga., to steer its new “fiscal accountability” group aimed toward reducing the nation’s $36 trillion in nationwide debt. 

Harmony Motion stated they are going to lead a grassroots effort to attain a “sustainable” nationwide finances. In an unique interview with Fox Information Digital forward of the launch, Bourdeaux, the group’s president and govt director, previewed Harmony Motion’s plan to stress Congress to stability the finances. 

“We’re on the point of launch Harmony Motion, which can complement the Harmony Coalition and is meant to construct on all of the grassroots vitality on the market across the debt and deficit, to attempt to begin shifting the needle in Congress to deliver fiscal accountability and monetary self-discipline to Washington,” Bourdeaux stated. 

Bordeaux, who represented Georgia’s seventh Congressional District for one time period starting in 2021, labored on bipartisan laws to sort out the nationwide finances disaster throughout her tenure. She was a member of the Blue Canine Job Drive on Fiscal Accountability and Authorities Reform, a nationwide group that claims it is dedicated to decreasing the federal deficit by way of bipartisan coverage improvement.

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Carolyn Bourdeaux will lead the Harmony Coalition’s new fiscal accountability advocacy group, Harmony Motion, centered on reducing America’s $36 trillion nationwide debt. (Fox Information)

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Georgia had a Republican-led legislature whereas Bourdeaux led Georgia’s Senate Finances and Analysis Workplace from 2007 to 2010. Bourdeaux performed an advisory position to the Georgia State Senate in balancing the finances throughout the 2008 financial downturn.

“I used to be director of Georgia’s Senate Finances and Analysis Workplace throughout the Nice Recession,” Bourdeaux stated. “I helped Georgia stability its finances throughout the worst fiscal disaster in fashionable reminiscence. One message popping out of that’s it may be achieved. I used to be working largely with the Republican management to stability the finances. However once we did that, these budgets handed by broad and bipartisan majorities. So this may be achieved by way of our common democratic processes. I wish to deliver that sensibility to what we’re engaged on right here in Harmony.”

Bordeaux stated to count on a digital marketing campaign with a publication to get the general public concerned in Harmony Motion’s grassroots efforts. There will even be a city corridor factor to construct vitality on the bottom. 

Carolyn Bourdeaux speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion exterior the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Nov. 10, 2020. (Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)

A 2024 Fox Information Voter Evaluation discovered the economic system was the highest situation for People, with 4 in 10 voters saying inflation was a very powerful issue of their vote. Voters had a detrimental view of the economic system, with virtually two-thirds score the economic system as not good, 40%, or downright poor, 24%. 

Because the nation approaches one other authorities shutdown deadline and Congress begins finances negotiations for fiscal 2026, Bordeaux stated it’s a vital time to launch Harmony Motion. 

“I feel the problem of the debt and deficit is especially salient to everybody,” Bordeaux stated. “We have clearly simply been by way of inflation. We have seen rates of interest rise. So it truly is prime of thoughts for many People proper now.”

Bourdeaux previewed Harmony Motion’s plan to stress Congress to stability the finances. (Getty Photos)

Harmony Motion stated they are going to stress Congress to cease including to the federal debt and create a “sustainable finances” by way of “fiscal accountability.”

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“We simply skilled some fairly critical inflation, and it was pushed partially by the deficit within the rising debt,” Bordeaux stated. 

“We’re $36 trillion in debt proper now simply primarily based on our present trajectory. The Congressional Finances Workplace thinks we’ll add one other $25 trillion to that,” she stated. “We’re spending extra on simply the curiosity on debt than we spend on nationwide protection, greater than we even spend on Medicare. It is actually beginning to put plenty of stress on plenty of huge priorities that now we have for this nation. This can be very essential that we deal with this now.”