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Analysis of the 2025 Medicare Trustees' Report
Read moreThe Medicare and Social Security Trustees released their annual reports on the financial status of the trust funds. Our report on the Social Security...
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Analysis of the 2025 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 both...
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OBBBA Would Cost More on a Dynamic Basis, Says CBO
Read moreThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its dynamic score of the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), finding that the bill would...
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Social Security and Medicare Are Only 8 Years from Insolvency
Read moreThe Trustees for Social Security and Medicare released their annual reports on the financial status of the programs’ respective trust funds today. The...
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Social Security and Medicare Trustees Release 2025 Reports
Read moreNote: We have published our analyses of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Reports. The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their...
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OBBBA’s 30-Year Price Tag
Read moreThe House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would add $3 trillion to the debt through Fiscal Year (FY) 2034 as written and $5 trillion if made...
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Maya MacGuineas: Trump’s Bill is Big, But Definitely Not Beautiful
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for U.S. News and World Report, an...
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How Much Would OBBBA Pay For Itself?
Read moreThe House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would add about $3 trillion to the debt, including interest, on a conventional basis. However...
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Leon Panetta and Bill Gradison Jr.: Bipartisanship Is Key to Fiscal Responsibility
Read moreLeon Panetta and Bill Gradison Jr. are former Members of Congress and a Co-Chair and a Director, respectively, of the Committee for a Responsible...
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Mike Murphy: What's your plan to save Social Security?
Read moreMike Murphy is senior vice president and chief of staff at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion piece for NC...
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Senate HELP Committee Proposes $355 Billion in Offsets
Read moreYesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released its part of the Senate reconciliation package, which we...
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Keith Hall: Congress’ Scorekeeper Is Under Attack. It Deserves Our Trust.
Read moreKeith Hall is a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and former chief economist...