Brian Higgins: “What is clear here is that the new Administration inherited an unmitigated financial disaster from the previous…”

Next Friday $25 billion in Social Security benefits are scheduled to be paid out but will not if the nation defaults on its debt.

The budget deficit...has dropped to 5.5 percent at the end of last year.

I just simply want to say--and I have heard very clearly your testimony, it has been very valuable to me in terms of learning a little bit more about this extraordinary program that, by the way, lifted 50 percent of American seniors out of…

$25 billion in Social Security benefits would not be sent out.