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Analysis of the 2022 Medicare Trustees' Report
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the financial state of those programs and their respective trust funds. The...
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Analysis of the 2022 Social Security Trustees' Report
Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the long-term financial state of the Social Security and Medicare...
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Social Security and Medicare Are Approaching Insolvency
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the state of the trust funds today. The Trustees find that Medicare’s...
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Trustees: Social Security and Medicare Headed for Insolvency in 13 and 6 Years
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees just released their 2022 reports on the financial status of the Social Security and Medicare programs. The...
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CBO Updates Major Trust Fund Baselines
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its projections last week on the financial status of the major trust funds for Medicare Hospital...
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Maya MacGuineas Joins C-SPAN to Discuss Deficits and the Economic Outlook
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President Maya MacGuineas recently appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. She discussed the latest Budget...
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Rumored Student Loan Cancellation Would Cost $230 Billion
Press reports indicate that President Biden could soon announce a plan to cancel at least $10,000 in debt for the vast majority of student loan...
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Committee Co-Chair Mitch Daniels on CNBC's 'Squawk Box'
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Co-Chair Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue University and former director of the Office of Management and...
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Debt Could Reach 125% of GDP With Irresponsible Actions
The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) new budget projections find that debt will reach a record 110 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ($40.2...
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Presentation: Fiscal Policy in a Time of High Inflation
On May 26, 2022, Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget gave a presentation to the National Economists Club on the possible...
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Analysis of CBO's May 2022 Budget and Economic Outlook
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its May 2022 Budget and Economic Outlook, its first baseline in almost a year. CBO’s new...
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CBO Projects Record Debt, After Short Reprieve
For Immediate Release The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook today. CBO projects high rates of inflation will...