Social Security

Last week, Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) and Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced legislation that would make targeted increases...

Reps. John Delaney (D-MD) and Tom Cole (R-OK) introduced the Social Security Commission Act of 2014 today.

As the Senate works this week to increase the debt, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) outlined a series of reforms to Social Security, Medicare, and retirement...

We have already shown how both federal health care spending and revenue projections have been revised downward by $900 billion and $4.2 trillion...

We have always have been proponents of paying for the costs of policies such as the tax extenders and doc fixes, since doing so would make a...

CBO’s latest budget outlook contained good news and bad news for some of the federal government’s largest trust funds. First, the bad news: CBO...

We talked last week about several policies making their first appearance in the President's budget. What we didn't mention is that in addition to...

Today, the White House announced that the President will not propose adopting the “chained CPI” in the President’s Budget this year, as he did last...

Last Friday, 16 Senate Democrats sent a letter to President Obama, but it wasn't for Valentine's Day. Rather, the letter warned the President against...

In CBO's 2014 Budget and Economic Outlook released this week, they addressed the future of the federal government's largest program, Social Security...

As the Senate looks for offsets for an unemployment insurance extension, there is one provision that has gotten some attention: ending "double-dipping...