Issue Position: Fiscal Responsibility

Issue Position

Drawing on his business experience, Sen. Warner has been a national leader on reining in budgets to make government more fiscally responsible. Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike have praised his bipartisan efforts to address government inefficiency, both as Virginia Governor and now as U.S. Senator. While our nation continues to face difficult budgetary choices, Sen. Warner has steadily worked across party lines to create solutions that protect taxpayers, promote accountability and address our nation's deficits and debt.

Balancing Virginia's Budget

When Virginia was at risk of losing its stellar credit rating, Governor Warner worked with the Republican controlled General Assembly in 2004 to enact a comprehensive budget and tax reform plan, ultimately stabilizing the Commonwealth's balance sheet.

Fixing Our Nation's Debt

Through his leadership in the bipartisan Gang of Six, Sen. Warner worked to find commonsense solutions to fix our nation's deficit, strengthen entitlement programs and reform our tax code.

Addressing Government Waste

As chairman of the Budget Committee's Government Performance Task Force, Sen. Warner's Government Performance and Results Modernization Act was signed into law in 2011 to identify and reform ineffective and duplicative federal programs.

Government Transparency

The bipartisan Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA), introduced by Sen. Warner in 2013, will track every dollar of federal spending to easily identity waste, fraud and abuse. In 2014, the DATA Act was passed by Congress and signed into law, marking the biggest advancement in government transparency since the Freedom of Information Act.

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