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The Committee for a Responsible Budget reports Social Security will be insolvent in 13 years.

The Committee for a Responsible Budget reports Social Security will be insolvent in 13 years.

Congressman Peter DeFazio and Senator Bernie Sanders today introduced joint legislation, the Social Security Expansion Act (SSEA), to strengthen and expand Social Security for current and future generations.

Wouldn't it be nice if the correct interpretation of the data is the optimistic one? Indeed, it would. But it ain't.

Some drug pricing advocacy organizations are petitioning the NIH to use so-called march-in rights to lower the price of the drug Xtandi.

Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and John Katko (R-NY-24) have introduced bipartisan legislation to protect them from elder abuse. 

Update:The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday failed to adopt Democrats plan to let Medicare broadly negotiate prescription drug prices after three Democrats—Reps. Kathleen Rice of New York, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, and Scott Peters of California—voted no.A spokesperson for House Spea...

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday said he would be willing to vote to raise the federal debt ceiling in exchange for a policy that could result in cuts to Social Security and Medicare, a proposed trade-off that progressive advocacy groups implored Democrats to reject. With members of Congress staring down an August deadline to increase the debt limit—the amount of money the federal government is legally permitted to borrow to meet its financial obligations—Graham (R-S.C.) told Blo...

Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell will introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2021 on March 17.

Calls Grow for Biden to Remove Trump Holdovers Who Want to Gut Social Security President Joe Biden gestures during International Womens Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 8, 2021. MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images By A growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers, progressive advocacy groups, and labor unions is calling on President Joe Biden to immediately remove the two top officials at the Social Security Administration, lesser-known Trump appointees who have ...