Trust Fund Solutions

On February 17, Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) joined the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and panel of experts to...

This week, a group of senators introduced legislation to suspend the federal gas tax through December 2022 amid rising inflation. We estimate the...

The Senate Finance Committee's Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth Subcommittee held a hearing on February 2, 2022, regarding the Medicare...

The Social Security trust funds are expected to be insolvent by 2033 according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and by 2035 according to the...

Accounting for the enactment of the bipartisan infrastructure law (formally, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act), we estimate the Highway...

In addition to new investments in surface transportation, transit, broadband, energy, water, tax breaks, and other transportation spending, the...

On September 1, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted “What’s Going on With the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.” The event...

In our recent paper “ The Case for Trust Fund Solutions,” we showed that making the Social Security, Medicare, and highway trust funds solvent would...

We estimate costs will exceed dedicated revenue by about $505 billion over the next decade, leaving a $360 billion solvency gap after accounting for...

Former Senators Bob Kerrey (D-NE) and John C. Danforth (R-MO) recently published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal highlighting the need to address...

With just five years until the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund faces insolvency, lawmakers must address the trust fund's $515 billion net...