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WATCH - Erskine Bowles: We Can Save Social Security and Medicare
Read moreErskine Bowles, former Co-Chair of the 2010 National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and current Committee for a Responsible Federal...
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Event Recap: Saving the Trust Funds
Read moreOn October 22, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare. The event...
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CRFB Floats “Break Glass Plan" for Next Economic Shock
Read moreWith our national debt currently at 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), America has never entered any kind of economic emergency as indebted...
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Gross National Debt Reaches $38 Trillion
Read moreThe gross national debt of the United States reached $38 trillion yesterday, according to the U.S. Treasury. This comes little more than two months...
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Saving the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare
Read moreOn October 22, 2025, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted Savings the Trust Funds: New Solutions for Social Security and Medicare, an...
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A Social Security COLA Cap
Read moreSocial Security is rapidly approaching insolvency. The retirement trust fund is seven years from exhaustion, and the theoretically combined trust...
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Treasury Confirms $1.8 Trillion Deficit in FY 2025
Read moreThe United States borrowed $1.8 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 according to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement from the Treasury Department...
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Trump CEA Projections Tracker
Read moreBefore the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released economic and fiscal...
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An Employer Compensation Tax for Social Security and Medicare
Read moreThe Social Security retirement and Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust funds are approaching insolvency, with both trust funds expected to be...
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CBO Estimates 2025 Deficit Totaled $1.8 Trillion
Read moreThe federal budget deficit totaled $1.8 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), roughly...
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Court Blocks CMS Ability to Recover Overpayments from Medicare Advantage
Read moreOverpayments in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program continue to be a significant problem for the federal government, and the problem may have just...
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Maya MacGuineas and John Kasich Discuss the National Debt
Read moreCommittee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently joined John Kasich, former Congressman and Governor of Ohio and a member...