By Danielle Paquette, THE WASHINGTON POST
Washington’s deficit hawks lamented the dragging pace of tax reform at this year’s Fiscal Summit in Washington, their annual budget brainstorm spearheaded by Pete G. Peterson, the billionaire co-founder of the Blackstone Group.
The thought leaders’ consensus, expectedly: It’s not going to happen this year.
But one traditionally non-fiscal topic danced on the tongues of the meeting’s attendees, including former president Bill Clinton: immigration reform.