The United States borrowed $2 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, including $27 billion in the month of September, according ...

The Social Security retirement trust fund is now less than six years from insolvency, according to CRFB’s Insolvency Countdown Clock. Without action from policymakers, beneficiaries will face a deep ...

Time is running out to save the Social Security retirement trust fund from insolvency in less than six years and ...

The Medicare system will be forced to start cutting benefits by 2033. What can we do?

The bill would require the House Appropriations Committee to bundle the 12 appropriations bills into four packages for markup once they had all passed their respective subcommittees. The goal is to ...

Over the next decade, the federal government is projected to spend $25 trillion on health care while forgoing an additional $7 trillion in employer sponsored health insurance-related tax breaks. 1 ...

The next few years will include several predictable fiscal policy deadlines, as various policies take effect, expire, or change. Many of the deadlines could bring additional costs if Congress acts ...

Encouragingly, the debt held by the public as a share of the economy (the measure that economists look at) will stabilize over the next few years – albeit at elevated levels - due to a combination of ...

Media Coverage The next Senate class will decide Social Security’s fate. Can they meet halfway to save it? Read more ...

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