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The use of Social Security surplus funds for other federal spending and the mechanism of redeeming special-issue Treasury securities.
the national debt by issuing Treasury securities—bills, notes and bonds—sold at auction to a mix of private investors, foreign governments, and intragovernmental trust funds; servicing that debt requi...
POLITICO and NPR verified DOGE’s claimed contract-cancellation savings by matching the department’s public listings to independent federal procurement records and agency documentation, and by flagging...
did not “steal” and stash cash taken from Social Security; by law surplus Social Security receipts were exchanged for special-issue securities and the general fund spent the cash, creating an IOU that...
Taxpayer money has been used to buy and to renovate and maintain official residences in multiple documented cases, most clearly in the Canadian Global Affairs disclosures that list six-figure totals a...
The 2015 refugee shock produced a clear short-term fiscal strain in the Nordics—spiking reception, housing and welfare costs, and prompting policy rollbacks—while its impact on dependency ratios depen...