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Trustees Warn Social Security and Medicare Are Approaching Insolvency
Read moreThe Trustees for Social Security and Medicare just released their annual reports, showing a significant deterioration in the financial states of both...
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Analysis of the 2026 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Medicare and Social Security Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the trust funds, showing both face serious...
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Analysis of the 2026 Social Security Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today on the financial status of the programs. The Trustees find that these...
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Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release 2026 Reports
Read moreThe Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports today, finding that both programs have significantly worse financial outlooks...
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12-Month Rolling Deficit is $1.7 Trillion in May 2026
Read moreThe federal government borrowed $1.7 trillion over the past year – June 2025 to May 2026 – based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office...
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Maya MacGuineas: No State Spared When Social Security Goes Insolvent
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Albany Times Union , an...
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Proposed Tariff Actions Could Raise Revenue by Nearly $1 Trillion
Read moreThe Trump Administration recently proposed new tariffs on imports from 60 economies using Section 301, which allows the President to impose trade...
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Marc Goldwein Discusses No State Spared on C-SPAN
Read moreThe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Senior Vice President & Senior Policy Director, Marc Goldwein, joined C-SPAN's "Washington Journal"...
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No State Spared: Mapping the Impact of Social Security's Insolvency
Read moreExplore the Interactive Map Click on your state to see its estimated impact. Social Security’s retirement program provides benefits for 63 million...
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Reconciliation Should Be for Deficit Reduction
Read moreThe Senate may soon vote on a reconciliation bill that would appropriate $70 billion for various immigration and Homeland Security agencies in place...
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Appropriations 101
Read moreWhat are appropriations? How does Congress determine the total level of appropriations? How does Congress allocate appropriations? How are...
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IMF Warns of Risks from Rising Debt
Read moreThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released its semiannual Fiscal Monitor report, warning that risks to the global fiscal outlook have...