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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The federal budget deficit totaled $1.8 trillion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, based on estimates from the Congressiona ...
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.
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 ...
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget deficit in its M ...
Some of the nation’s largest and most important programs are financed through government trust funds that collect dedicated ...
Social Security turns 90 today – but its retirement program is on course to be insolvent by age 97 – according to new estimates from the program’s Chief Actuary. Even if combined with the disability ...
9/26/25: Updated to reflect new CBO estimate of the cost of enhanced ACA subsidies. With early marketplace premium estimates rolling out, there is increasing talk of extending the Affordable Care Act ...