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Event Recap: Saving the Trust Funds
Read moreOn October 22, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare. The event...
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Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare
Read moreOn October 22, 2025, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Savings the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare, an...
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An Employer Compensation Tax for Social Security and Medicare
Read moreThe Social Security retirement and Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust funds are approaching insolvency, with both trust funds expected to be...
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It's Time for Trust Fund Solutions
Read moreSome of the nation’s largest and most important programs are financed through government trust funds that collect dedicated revenues and then...
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Chris Towner: The Social Security and Medicare Funding Problems Are Real
Read moreChris Towner is the policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Monthly, an...
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A Second Reconciliation Bill Should Reduce Deficits
Read moreAs Congress considers the possibility of a second reconciliation bill, lawmakers should ensure it reduces deficits rather than adds to them as the...
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Offsetting ACA Enhanced Subsidy Extensions
Read more9/26/25: Updated to reflect new CBO estimate of the cost of enhanced ACA subsidies. With early marketplace premium estimates rolling out, there is...
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What's In the One Big Beautiful Bill Act?
Read moreNote: This blog was updated on 8/4/25 to reflect CBO's newly-released estimates of the permanent cost of certain expiring tax provisions in OBBBA. The...
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Comments on Proposed Rule to Close a Medicaid Financing Loophole
Read moreOn July 11, 2025 the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and Director of...
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Comparing the Senate and House OBBBAs
Read moreThe Senate has passed its version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 reconciliation bill – the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The table below is a...
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Senate OBBBA Includes Major "RECA" Entitlement Expansion
Read moreIn addition to adding an extra $1.1 trillion to the national debt above the House bill to a total of over $4.1 trillion, the Senate-passed One Big...
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OBBBA Would Accelerate Social Security & Medicare Insolvency
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees estimated in their 2025 annual reports on the programs that the retirement and hospital trust funds will...