Like a twisted game of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?,” the federal government is running out of lifelines to fund the entitlement programs it has created. Social Security and Medicare will be $88.2 trillion short of the money needed to pay full benefits for the next 75 years under current policy.

The Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Report of the United States Government, released on March 19 and signed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, reached the same conclusion it did in past years: “The current fiscal path is unsustainable.”

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