Social Security is rapidly approaching insolvency. The retirement trust fund is seven years from exhaustion, and the theoretically combined trust funds are nine years from running out.

The Social Security retirement and Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust funds are approaching insolvency, with both trust ...

Some of the nation’s largest and most important programs are financed through government trust funds that collect dedicated ...

The federal budget deficit totaled $1.8 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, based on estimates from the Congressiona ...

The United States borrowed $1.8 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 according to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement from the Treasury Department. This deficit is similar to last year’s, despite an ...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget deficit in its M ...

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas recently joined John Kasich, former Congressman and Governor of Ohio and a member of the Committee, on the first episode of the ...

The RADV program is a tool CMS uses to identify and recover overpayments to MA. Only a few months ago, CMS touted its commitment to beefing up this program, leveraging the 2023 final rule. Through ...

It’s past time for Congress and the White House to do their job and reopen the federal government, putting an end to this latest example of Washington dysfunction.

Social Security is the single largest federal spending program, providing cash benefits to 60 million seniors, disabled workers, and family members. Yet with life expectancy growing and millions of ...