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Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release 2023 Reports
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees just released their annual reports on the financial status of the Social Security and Medicare programs over...
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Time is Running Out to Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreToday, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds. The Trustees project that Medicare’s...
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Maya MacGuineas: Doing nothing on Social Security and Medicare will be a painful and costly decision
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Protect Our Seniors Act Would Threaten Trust Fund Solvency and Worsen Deficits
Read moreLast week, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced a bill called the Protect Our Seniors Act that would establish a new Senate rule requiring two-thirds...
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White House Should Stop Demagoguing Social Security and Medicare
Read moreWhite House spokesperson Andrew Bates today described commissions to save the Social Security and Medicare programs from insolvency as a “death panel...
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Principles for Social Security Reform
Read moreSocial Security will be insolvent in as little as a decade. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the combined trust funds’ reserves will be...
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CBO's Budget Options to Improve Trust Fund Solvency
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published its latest Options for Reducing the Deficit reports, outlining 76 policy options across two...
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CBO: Only a Decade Until Social Security Insolvency
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released detailed Social Security projections finding that the trust funds are headed for insolvency by...
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CBO Releases 2022 Budget Options Report
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2023 to 2032 report this week, outlining 76 policy options and...
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Making Trust Funds Solvent Would Substantially Reduce Debt Growth
Read moreIn July, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that federal debt held by the public would nearly double as a share of the economy over three...
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President Should Offer Plan to Secure Social Security & Medicare
Read morePresident Biden delivered remarks today at the White House on Social Security and Medicare. The following is a statement from Maya MacGuineas...
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Lawmakers Should Replace WEP/GPO, Not Repeal It
Read moreThe House Ways and Means Committee reported H.R. 82, a bill that repeals the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government...