The Debt Dispatch
Romina Boccia, Dominik Lett, Ivane Nachkebia, Krit Chanwong, Ritvik Thakur, Tyler TurmanYour insider source for honest fiscal facts and actionable insights that drive America’s debt debate.
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June 23 Hill Event on Fixing Medicaid's Financing Structure to Reduce Waste, Fraud, and Overspending
Join us on Tuesday, June 23, at NOON ET for a Capitol Hill briefing for congressional staff hosted by the Cato Institute. Titled: “Fixing Medicaid's Financing Structure to Reduce Waste, Fraud, and Overspending.” This briefing will be held f...
Social Security’s Shortfall Is Worse than Trustees Project
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According to the annual Social Security Trustees report released yesterday, Social Security’s finances deteriorated further over the past year. Even so, the trustees are likely understating the shortfall that Congre...
Debt Digest | Medicare Fraud Dwarfs What Enforcement Recovers
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Here are this week’s reading links and fiscal facts:
- Social Security wealth plays a much smaller role for high-income families. A new Congressional Budget Office working paper by Elizabeth Ash and Nadia Karamch...
In the Press: Falling fertility, Insolvency Borrowing Trap, Medicaid Lobbying, and Underlying Inflation Driver
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Falling fertility, rising Social Security shortfall
Jessica Hall draws on Boccia and Krit Chanwong’s new analysis to emphasize “Social Security’s finances may be in worse shape than thought” because of overly o...
If Congress Wants a Raise, It Should Do Its Job
This article first appeared at The Daily Economy, an imprint of the American Institute for Economic Research, on June 2, 2026. Read it here.
Congress may finally receive the inflation adjustments lawmakers have spent years blocking. But be...
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