Jacob J. Lew: “We have put down a plan, which is the President's plan for how we are going to get to the point where we stop adding to…”

The fiscal year 2017 President's budget puts forward the building blocks of a social compact for the 21st century and creates the conditions for sustained economic growth.

I mean, it is really an outrage when I look at these numbers, and I would like to know what the administration would propose to address this incredibly serious issue and really broken promises for folks who have worked hard all of their…

I have always thought that the sooner we could have a bipartisan conversation on dealing with Social Security, the better.

The real goal is not to restructure the debt. The real goal is to get back to economic growth.