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From insight to impact: join the Debt Dispatch's inner circle with a paid subscription
As we enter a pivotal year for America’s budget policy, we invite you to join the Debt Dispatch’s inner circle by becoming a voluntary paid subscriber. Thanks to your incredible support, we’ve reached some exciting milestones—over the past three months, our posts have garnered more than 50,000 views, we’re closing in on 3,000 subscribers, and 15 of you have pledged to financially support this publication without us even asking.
Let me start by assuring you: all content will remain free. Our goal is to reach as many decisionmakers and fiscal leaders as possible with key fiscal facts and effective strategies to achieve a more sustainable fiscal future. Starting today, if you value the unique role the Debt Dispatch and its weekly links roundup, The Debt Digest, play in cutting through the noise and influencing top Washington decisionmakers, your paid subscription will amplify our reach at a critical moment for America’s budget policy.
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With federal interest payments now exceeding defense spending as debt’s share of the US economy races toward exceeding its historic WWII record-high, the work we’re doing together matters more than ever. 2025 is a pivotal year for US fiscal policy as the 119th Congress will be confronted with multi-trillion dollar deadlines from the need to raise the statutory debt limit as government keeps spending more than it takes in, to the desire to extend expiring tax cuts without pouring fuel on the deficit fire, to the Trump-established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) scouring for opportunities to downsize the federal government.
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To everyone who has already pledged: thank you! Your support helps fuel our mission. Here’s what others have said about why they’re willing to financially support the Debt Dispatch by becoming a paid subscriber:
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Romina Boccia - Founder and Principal Author, The Debt Dispatch & Debt Digest on Substack; Director, Federal Budget and Entitlement Policy, The Cato Institute.