Brian Higgins: “Next Friday $25 billion in Social Security benefits are scheduled to be paid out but will not if the nation defaults on…”

I think that would be a great public service the Congressional Budget Office could provide to the United States Congress

It is Congress that is not fulfilling its mission to Social Security beneficiaries.

Congress' inability to make a budget fully with approved appropriations bills virtually every single year... hurts the world economy as well.

The Federal Government is part of a public-private partnership