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Debt Digest | US Cannot Outgrow $40 trillion In Debt

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (832+ words) The Debt Dispatch Debt Digest | US Cannot Outgrow $40 trillion In Debt Links & Fiscal Facts Here are this week’s reading links and fiscal facts: The US cannot outgrow $40 trillion in debt. After the national debt crossed $40 trillion, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent…...

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In the Press: $40 Trillion Debt, Medicaid’s Financing Flaw, and Hidden Costs of “Universal” Health Care

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (759+ words) In The Wall Street Journal, Boccia responds in a letter to the editor to Joseph Sternberg’s argument that Social Security reform is “a political rather than a technocratic issue.” Boccia argues for a BRAC-style commission: “Social Security reform is unavoidably…...

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Fixing Medicaid's Financing Structure to Reduce Waste, Fraud, and Overspending

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (892+ words) Medicaid is one of the largest and fastest-growing items in the federal budget and is highly vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse. We took that problem to Capitol Hill, hosting a panel featuring Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute, Chris…...