Social Security

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently joined Fox News' "Special Report" with Bret Baier to discuss the annual...

The Social Security and Medicare Trustees just released their annual reports on the financial status of the Social Security and Medicare programs. The...

Restoring solvency to the major trust funds could stabilize debt as a share of the economy, albeit at a very high level. We estimate that when dynamic...

Maya 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...

During the fifth GOP presidential primary debate, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis argued against raising the Social Security retirement age because...

In less than ten years, Social Security’s retirement trust fund will be insolvent. Under the law, this will trigger an immediate 23 percent cut in...

In a recent New York Times opinion piece which keyed off a recent analysis from Karen Smith and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget board...

Marc Goldwein is senior vice president and senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Chris Towner is policy director...

In a town hall hosted by Fox News, former President Donald Trump suggested that America’s fiscal problems – and specifically Social Security’s looming...

When asked whether they would support raising the Social Security retirement age to avert insolvency during last Wednesday’s Republican presidential...

According to recent estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), restoring Social Security solvency through blunt changes could ultimately...