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Debt Digest | Congress Passes $9 Billion in Federal Spending Clawbacks
8am ET Today: Cato's Dom Lett on CSPAN
Two Misleading Narratives on the Social Security Funding Crisis - Part 2
Two Misleading Narratives on the Social Security Funding Crisis - Part 1
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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Debt Digest | Sensible Farm and Medicaid Amendments Withdrawn From the OBBBA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
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
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”
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
Congress Set to Boost Federal Debt by $5 Trillion
Advancing Big Ideas: Guest Posts at the Debt Dispatch
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
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
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