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Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former State Department director of policy planning, testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee January 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. Haas testified before the committee on the topic of “From Sanctions to the Soleimani Strike to Escalation: Evaluating the Administration's Iran Policy."
Economy

Legendary DC diplomat feels ‘like Paul Revere’ about the $38 trillion national debt: ‘The crisis is coming!’

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November 13, 2025
Barry Eichengreen
Personal Finance

Your political polarization is the reason for our $38 trillion national debt, top economist says: ‘it’s deeply debilitating’ for ‘consensus and stability and productive policy results’

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November 13, 2025
Social Security payments to go up 2.8% next year while polls show three-fourths of seniors think 3% isn’t enough to keep up with rising prices
Economy

Social Security payments to go up 2.8% next year while polls show three-fourths of seniors think 3% isn’t enough to keep up with rising prices

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
October 24, 2025
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Economy

Tens of millions on Social Security go without cost-of-living adjustment due to government shutdown

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
October 15, 2025
Donald Trump
Personal Finance

Trust funds that finance Medicare and Social Security are at risk of insolvency within 7 years, cutting benefits up to 24%, a new report warns

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October 8, 2025
President Donald J. Trump's name is printed on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the new coronavirus outbreak in San Antonio, April 23, 2020.
Personal Finance

Almost 400,000 Americans still get Social Security by paper check. That’s going away everywhere (except where it isn’t)

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
September 30, 2025
Social Security chief says he won’t hike the retirement age amid the strain of America’s aging population and fears of benefit cuts
Personal Finance

Social Security chief says he won’t hike the retirement age amid the strain of America’s aging population and fears of benefit cuts

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September 23, 2025
Frank Bisignano, commissioner of the US Social Security Administration, left, and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025.
Economy

Trump’s social security chief says ‘everything’ is on the table and retirement is about to get a ‘different set of rules’

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September 19, 2025
Rich French retiree relaxing at home
Success

65-year-old retirees in France now have higher incomes than working-age adults—meanwhile, American boomers can’t even afford to retire

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September 16, 2025
Social Security and Medicare cuts are coming because the bond market will eventually bring Congress to its knees, economist says 
Finance

Social Security and Medicare cuts are coming because the bond market will eventually bring Congress to its knees, economist says 

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August 31, 2025
Trump’s Social Security tax cuts could hit future generations hard and propel the program’s insolvency by 2032, research warns
Finance

Trump’s Social Security tax cuts could hit future generations hard and propel the program’s insolvency by 2032, research warns

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August 15, 2025
Donald Trump
Politics

Social Security’s ‘go-broke date’ keep creeping up—it’s lost a full year since the last accounting

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
August 14, 2025
The Social Security tsunami: Payments could be cut by 23%, doubling the poverty rate for America’s seniors
Personal Finance

The Social Security tsunami: Payments could be cut by 23%, doubling the poverty rate for America’s seniors

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August 8, 2025
Millions of Americans are making a Social Security mistake that could cost them $100,000 or more in retirement income
Economy

Millions of Americans are making a Social Security mistake that could cost them $100,000 or more in retirement income

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July 31, 2025
Scott Bessent
Politics

Scott Bessent admits that Trump just created a ‘back door for privatizing Social Security’

By Michelle L. Price, Lisa Mascaro and The Associated Press
July 31, 2025

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