Our Unsustainable Debt
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America’s national debt is now over $38 trillion. That’s more than $111,000 for every person in America. Learn how we got here and where we are headed if we don’t act now.
The Latest
How Social Security Contributes to Debt and Deficits? The Social Security Trustees released their annual report on June 9, offering the clearest picture yet of the program’s financial outlook—and its growing impact on the federal budget. Social Security remains the largest single federal program, with costs reaching $1.7 trillion in 2026, or about 22% of all federal spending. Its size alone makes it central to the nation’s fiscal trajectory, but the new report underscores how the program’s trust fund structure…
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2026 Social Security Trustees Report Statement
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June 3 Summit News Release
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When Debt Outruns the Economy: Time for (at least) a 3% Deficit Target
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Return to Fiscal Sanity: Bring Back the “Conrad Rule”
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Why a Federal Gas Tax Holiday Misses the Real Highway Funding Problem
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Concord Action: One Small Step For Fiscal Responsibility
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Can Taxes on the Ultra‑Wealthy Help Solve America’s Debt Problem?
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When Bigger Budgets Meet Broken Books: The Pentagon’s Audit Failures and the Push for a $446 Billion Increase
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Two Little‑Known Features of Social Security That Drive Its Long‑Term Costs
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Concord Action Statement on Senate Budget Resolution
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The Wrong Direction: How Recent Policy Changes Have Worsened Social Security’s Long‑Term Fiscal Outlook
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Understanding Social Security: It’s Not Just “Get What You Pay In”
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Why Cutting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Isn’t Enough to Balance the Budget: Lessons from DOGE
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Why Cutting IRS Funding Costs Far More Than It Saves
Who We Are
Concord Action
Concord Action is a growing grassroots movement of Americans who care deeply about our economy and fiscal outlook. Our supporters worry that America’s unsustainable national debt is contributing to inflation, driving higher interest rates, threatening our security and creating an unfair burden for our future. We believe we must change course before our country is bankrupt.
Stand with us to demand lawmakers stop adding to our unsustainable debt.
