Failing to raise the debt limit before the Treasury runs out of cash could trigger further credit downgrades and roil ...

As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the mastodon in the room: Social Security and ...

Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy for the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, said the acceleration of Social Security’s insolvency is significant, even if ...

Alas, we have the system we have for now and it’s on the ropes thanks to demographic pressures and mismanagement of the ...

The latter worries the Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell, along with libertarians like the Cato Institute’s Romina Boccia, but this situation should cheer those who prefer erecting ...

“In many people’s minds, European welfare states are more generous than ours—but when it comes to Social Security, the U.S. actually leads the pack in benefits and spending,” Romina Boccia ...

The Social Security Administration said nearly 90% of beneficiaries won’t pay taxes on benefits as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill. - . The Social Security Ad ...

When that happens, seniors will face an automatic 23 percent cut in their Social Security benefits. Medicare will reduce payments to hospitals by 11 percent. These cuts are not theoretical. They're ...

The loss of those three years “is a stark warning about the unsustainability of the program and its sensitivity to health care consumption and price fluctuations,” Romina Boccia told us; she ...

The passage of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” and its $5 trillion debt-limit increase has averted the crisis for now but not forever. “Increasing the debt ceiling should […] ...

Considering recent news, you may have missed that the 2025 trustees reports for Social Security and Medicare are out. Once ...