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Debt Dispatch: The Best and Worst of 2024

DOGE Recommendations: Social Security

Debt Digest | Cut Spending to Boost Growth

Q&A with House Budget Committee Members

Congress Should Reject a Blockbuster Christmas Stopgap Measure

DOGE Recommendations: Emergency Spending

Debt Digest | How DOGE could cut $2 trillion

Pathways and Possible Solutions to the US Fiscal Crisis: Testimony

TODAY: My Testimony Before the House Budget Committee at 10:00 AM ET

Debt Digest | Treasury Nominee Bessent: We Have a Spending Problem

Debt Digest | Debt, Inflation, and Voter Backlash

Debt Digest | Inflation (And Modern Monetary Theory) Lost Democrats the Election

With a BRAC-like Structure DOGE Can Succeed Where Other Commissions Have Failed

Debt Digest | Early Action Will Define the New Administration’s Success

Facing the 2025 Fiscal Cliff: Reduce Deficits with Spending Cuts or Risk Inflation and Voter Backlash

Time to Face the Facts about Social Security

Debt Digest | 10 Programs the Musk-Ramaswamy DOGE Should Cut

Rethinking Disaster Aid: Promoting Fiscal Responsibility and Risk Management

Debt Digest | Trump’s Playbook for Winning the Fiscal Battles Ahead

Debt Digest | No Plan to Fix Social Security as Benefit Cuts Loom

Debt Digest | Americans Could Be in for a Rude Debt Awakening

Social Security is a Legal Ponzi Scheme

Debt Digest | The US Debt Crisis is a Global Problem

Simpson-Bowles 2.0 Won’t Cut It, A BRAC-like Commission Has More Teeth

Debt Digest | Interest Payments as a Share of Available Revenues to Reach Record Highs

Debt Digest | New Bipartisan Law Enhances the CBO’s Role as a Fiscal Watchdog

Controversial Social Security Benefit Increase Would Cost Taxpayers $196 Billion

Debt Digest | Avoiding a Shutdown by Setting Up a Christmas Spending Blowout

Debt Digest | Americans Will Bear the Cost of the Trump Tariffs

How “Temporary” Emergency Spending Bloats the Federal Budget for Years

Reining in Trillions of Executive Spending

Why Germany Should Preserve Its Debt Brake and the US Should Adopt One

Debt Digest | Healthcare is 'What’s Eating the Budget'

Fiscal Accountability and Enhancing the CBO’s Role in Preventing a US Debt Crisis

Debt Digest | US Healthcare Spending: More Money, Worse Results

Washington Post Global Social Security Comparison Misses the Forest for the Trees

Debt Digest | US Debt Servicing Costs Outpace Other Mature Market Economies

Debt Digest | Taking Too Much from the Young

5 Reasons Why Social Security Is an Income Transfer Program, and Not an ‘Earned Benefit’

Debt Digest | Kamala Harris Proposes Price Controls

Social Security at 89: Time to Retire the Old Benefit Formula

Debt Digest | Repealing Income Taxes on Social Security Benefits is Neither Fair nor Fiscally Responsible

Two Years of Sounding the Alarm: Reflections and Progress on Addressing the US Debt Crisis

Debt Digest | US Healthcare is Far From Being a Free Market System

Debt Digest | Planless in Washington: The Social Security and Medicare Saga

House Budget Committee Seeks to Reform Emergency Spending as Senate Prepares to Raid Rainy Day Funds

Debt Digest | Central Bank Managers Worry About Global Debt Levels

US Workers Earning $60,070 Face $3,063 in Higher Taxes to Keep Social Security Solvent

Debt Digest | How to ‘Fix’ Medicare and Social Security Without Cutting ‘One Penny’

The Debt Delusion: Why Modern Monetary Theory is a Luxury Belief

Debt Digest | Questions for Fed Chair Powell

Social Security’s $4.1 Trillion Hidden Government Deficit

Debt Digest | The US Debt Crisis is a Bipartisan Problem

It's either Chaos or This Plan: Paul Ryan on my BRAC-Like Fiscal Commission Idea

CBO Update: Medicare and Social Security Are Key Drivers of Exploding Debt

Debt Digest | Cato Tax Plan Would Lower Taxes Without Adding to Deficits

Another CBO Report Warns of Debt Surging, As a Fiscal Crisis Brews

Debt Digest | Paul Ryan Warns: Debt Crisis Ahead

Debt Digest | Track and Offset Emergency Spending

Social Security Spending Adds to the National Debt

Debt Digest | Rising Debt Stifles Income Growth

A Jeffersonian Dinner on the Future of Social Security

Debt Digest | Social Security’s Finances Are Worse Than Reported

Will Economic Growth Be Short-Lived as Fiscal Challenges Abound?

Debt Digest | Government Intervention Leads to Higher Health Care Prices

Debt Digest | Americans Are In for Social Security Sticker Shock

Emergency Spending and the Erosion of Congressional Fiscal Norms

Debt Digest | TODAY: Senator Cassidy Will Give Opening Remarks at 9:15 AM ET

Fast Facts about Social Security

Fast Facts about Emergency Spending

Debt Digest | IMF Calls For Fiscal Restraint

May 3 Hill Event & Stop the Baseline Bloat Act

Debt Digest | Uncapping the Payroll Tax Won’t Save Social Security

WWII’s Impact: The Birth of Europe’s Extensive Welfare System

Debt Digest | A BRAC-like Fiscal Commission is a Political Solution to a Political Problem

Debt Digest | A Million Simulations Show That the US Debt Is on an Unsustainable Trajectory

The High Cost of War: Ukraine Aid Could Top $240 Billion

The Threat of Fiscal Dominance: Will the US Resort to Money-Printing to Finance the Rising Debt Challenge?

Debt Digest | Hundreds of Billions of Taxpayers’ Money is Squandered on Improper Payments

America in Debt: Remarks at the Coolidge Foundation Conference

Debt Digest | Senate Admits: Debt is a National Security Threat

Social Security Symposium: A Global Perspective | May 9, Washington, D.C. & Online

CBO Warns of Fiscal Crisis in Long-Term Budget Outlook

Medicare and Social Security Are Responsible for 100 Percent of US Unfunded Obligations

Debt Digest | Cast Your Vote in Cato’s Spending Madness Tournament

The Fiscal State of the Nation: Testimony

Debt Digest | Biden’s Harmful Tax Increases Won't Fix Medicare and Social Security

The Price of Short-Sightedness: Emergency Spending's $2 Trillion Interest Tab

Debt Digest | Government Deficits Threaten Market Stability

New Emergency Spending Would Cost $28-$41 Billion More Than Incomplete Budget Score Suggests

Debt Digest | Fiscal Reform Grows the Economy

Responding to Critiques of the Congressional Fiscal Commission

Debt Digest | Immigration Boosts Revenues

Social Security Pays Excessive Benefits to the Highest Income Earners: A UK Comparison

Debt Digest | Self-Defeating Politics

The CBO Budget and Economic Outlook: Debt Projected to Grow to Record Highs

Debt Digest | Erosion of Fiscal Principles

Seven Emergency Spending Reforms Congress Should Consider

Debt Digest | A Tale of Two Trust Funds

6 Reforms to Enhance Transparency and Fiscal Accountability through the Congressional Budget Office

Debt Digest | Dad Jokes

House Budget Committee Advances Fiscal Commission to Address Government Spending and Debt

With $34 Trillion in Debt, House Budget Committee Debates the Fiscal Commission Act

Debt Digest | Fiscal Deterioration

Debt Digest | Honest Budgeting

Curbing Federal Emergency Spending: New Study Release

How Does the Government Spending Deal Measure Up?

Debt Digest | Bipartisan Irresponsibility