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Debt Digest | The Pentagon’s Investment Fund

Debt Digest | The Debt Ceiling Increase Is a Striking Display of Fiscal Hypocrisy

Debt Digest | The Untold Story of Inequality: Growth, Redistribution, and Misleading Stats

The Senate’s Big Beautiful Blunder Could Increase the Debt by $6 Trillion

Debt Digest | Sensible Farm and Medicaid Amendments Withdrawn From the OBBBA

Debt Digest | One Big Bloated Blunder: What’s Wrong with the Senate’s Reconciliation Bill

Unmasking Medicaid Money-Laundering Schemes: Medicaid Financing Gimmicks 101

Is There Hope for a Strong Balanced Budget Rule in the United States?

Debt Digest | Rethinking Social Security: New Paper Release

GOP Cuts and State Budgets

Social Security’s Unfunded Obligation Now at $28 Trillion: It’s Time to Rethink the Program

Debt Digest | The Threat of Financial Repression

Why Protecting the Congressional Budget Office Should Matter to the Congress, and to the Country

Cutting Deficits Is Not the Same as Cutting Debt

Rep. Stutzman’s Emergency Spending Accountability Act Aims to Restore Fiscal Discipline to Crisis Spending

How to Eliminate Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicare

Debt Digest | Fiscal Irresponsibility Threatens Fiscal Dominance

Rescissions: A Small but Welcome Step Toward Spending Discipline

Debt Digest | Rescissions Week

Debt Digest | Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Pay for Tax Cuts in the “One Big Beautiful Bill”

On Air: One Big Bloated Bill

Debt Digest | Real Spending Reform Is Still Missing from the GOP’s Budget Plan

Medicaid’s Funding Formula Rewards Overspending and Fuels Fraud

Debt Digest | Impoundment May Be Back on the Table

Moody’s Downgrades US Debt

Congress Set to Boost Federal Debt by $5 Trillion

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Medicaid Is Driving Deficits: Republicans Are Scarcely Tapping the Brakes

Debt Digest | The Political Incentive for Republicans to Reform Medicaid

Joyce: Don’t Undermine National Social Insurance

Social Security’s Financial Crisis in Pictures

Debt Digest | Shrinking Economy Should Be a Wake-Up Call To Halt Tariffs and Runaway Spending

Congress Should Embrace the Cuts in Trump’s Skinny Budget

Counterpoint: States Would Be More Responsible with Social Security than the Federal Government

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Debt Digest | Congress’s Inaction on Controlling Debt Risks Disaster

Congress Must Cut and Reform Medicaid

States Should Be Able to Opt Out of Social Security—Here’s How to Do it

DOGE Fell Short on Spending Cuts: Now Congress Must Lead

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Debt Digest | A Trade Deficit Is an Investment Surplus

Debt Digest | DOGE’s Savings Claims Are Overstated

It’s Tax Day—Here’s How Washington Spent Your Money

The Senate Plan is a Trap—House Lawmakers Shouldn’t Fall for It

Debt Digest | Social Security Isn’t Rife With Fraud—But It’s a (Legal) Ponzi Scheme

No More Profiles in Courage?

The Senate’s Latest Budget Resolution is a Fiscal Train Wreck

Debt Digest | Senate to Vote on Overturning Trump’s Tariff Emergency Abuse

Debt Digest | US to Hit Debt Limit This Fall

Bring Back Rescissions: How to Realize DOGE Savings

The Joint Economic Committee Report Sounds the Alarm on Debt and Deficits

Debt Digest | Tariffs Are a Luxury Belief of the Right

Where the Brookings’ Social Security Plan Falls Short

Debt Digest | Trump’s Trade and Investment Policy Goals Are Contradictory

Government Funding Bill Continues Irresponsible Status Quo as Tariffs Wreak Havoc

Today at 2:00 PM ET: Discussing the Dangers of the Current Policy Baseline Gimmick

Today at 8:00 AM ET: Discussing the Federal Budget on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

Another Stopgap Funding Bill, Another Budget Failure

Debt Digest | Trump Says He’ll Balance the Budget, but GOP Budget Resolutions Tell a Different Story

The Fool’s Gold of a US Sovereign Wealth Fund

Don’t Rely on DOGE: Congress Needs to Own Spending Restraint

Debt Digest | Is DOGE Missing the Bigger Picture in Federal Workforce Cuts?

With All Eyes on DOGE, Congress Plays Budget Games with America’s Fiscal Future

Debt Digest | A DOGE Dividend Could Fuel Inflation

The LASSO Act is a Distraction from Real Social Security Reform

Debt Digest | House Budget Committee Boosts Spending Cuts in Resolution

House Budget Pairs Wishful Thinking with Modest Spending Restraints

Economic Growth Won't Save Social Security: New Paper Release

The Senate’s Budget Shell Game

Debt Digest | A $196 billion Social Security Mistake

Debt Digest | Hard Pass on a US Sovereign Wealth Fund

Debt Digest | RFK Jr. Misunderstands Medicare and Medicaid

Debt Digest | DOGE Scales Back Cuts To Update GovTech

Debt Digest | The Fed’s Rule Problem

The Case for Conditioning Disaster Aid to California

U.S. Fiscal Policy on Collision Course

Debt Digest | Bond Markets Warning to Trump and Republicans

In the Wall Street Journal: The Debt Dispatch on DOGE

Reducing Spending Now: The Key to Growth, Not Austerity

What the Social Security Fairness Act Tells Us About the Likely Future of Social Security Reform

Debt Digest | BITCOIN Act Hocus Pocus Would Fuel Deficits

2025: A Pivotal Year for America’s Fiscal Future

Debt Digest | It’s Too Late for Social Security Private Accounts

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