The tax reform embedded in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the recent United States -Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement, “phase one” of a China-U.S. trade deal and recent regulatory reforms are all needed to revive and strengthen economic growth. It is now time for another essential policy step: correcting the trajectory of fiscal policy. The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) current baseline projection of federal government spending in future years far outpaces federal government revenue, as the figure below clearly shows.