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GAO Warns on the Nation's Fiscal Health
Jun 24, 2026
44m 31s
Social Security's Turn For The Worse
Jun 17, 2026
44m 31s
Big Budget Decisions Require Public Input
Jun 11, 2026
44m 15s
Mobilizing the Public on the Deficit and Debt
Jun 3, 2026
44m 59s
Defense Increase Ask Is Short On Details
May 20, 2026
44m 11s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/24/26 | GAO Warns on the Nation's Fiscal Health | This week on Facing the Future, we hear why the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) is warning the President and Congress that urgent and sustained action is needed to improve the nation's fiscal outlook. Jeff Arkin, Director of Strategic Issues at GAO, is our guest. | 44m 31s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | Social Security's Turn For The Worse | This week on Facing the Future, Mark Warshawsky of the American Enterprise Institute explains why the projected finances of both Social Security and Medicare were substantially worse in the 2026 trustees report than they were last year and why early action is the best way to prevent sudden cuts. | 44m 31s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | Big Budget Decisions Require Public Input | This week on Facing the Future, G. William Hoagland, Senior Vice President of the Bipartisan Policy Center, lays out the case for public engagement on major budget decisions, gives an update on the federal budget and reacts to the new Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports. | 44m 15s | ||||||
| 6/3/26 | Mobilizing the Public on the Deficit and Debt | This week on Facing the Future, host Bob Bixby joins Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Jonathan Silver of Affinity Solutions and Andrew Lewis of the University of Cincinnati's Portman Center in a panel discussion on strategies for getting the public to put deficit reduction on the political agenda. | 44m 59s | ||||||
| 5/20/26 | Defense Increase Ask Is Short On Details | This week on Facing the Future, Todd Harrison of the American Enterprise Institute lays out the pros and cons of the president's request for a 50 percent increase in the defense budget. | 44m 11s | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | Congress Should Stop Fast-Tracking Higher Debt | This week on Facing the Future, former U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) explains why he supports a new fiscal commission as a way of finding solutions to the nation's growing debt and how reinstating the "Conrad rule" in the Senate would help. | 44m 27s | ||||||
| 5/6/26 | Congress Does a Budget Resolution, One Year Late | This week on Facing the Future, Molly Reynolds of the Brookings Institution explains why the budget resolution recently passed by Congress is highly unusual and a year behind schedule. | 44m 04s | ||||||
| 4/29/26 | College Students Are Up To The Fiscal Challenge | This week on Facing the Future, students from the University of Iowa and their faculty adviser Dr. Alexandra Nica, describe how they reduced the debt-to-GDP ratio over the next 30 years and what they learned in winning this year's nationwide Fiscal Challenge competition. | 44m 40s | ||||||
| 4/22/26 | Are Democrats Backing "Slopulist" Tax Cuts?✨ | tax cutsDemocrats+1 | Ben Ritz | the Progressive Policy InstituteFacing the Future | — | Progressive Policy Institute2024 elections | — | 44m 09s | |
| 4/15/26 | Kicking the Can Down the Road, Again✨ | budgetfiscal policy+1 | Jessica Riedl | the Brookings InstitutionFacing the Future | — | Trump budgetBiden fiscal legacy+1 | — | 44m 39s | |
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| 4/8/26 | Building an Achievable Fiscal Policy✨ | fiscal policydebt control+1 | Rob PortmanCarolyn Bourdeaux+1 | Concord Coalitionthe American Enterprise Institute+1 | — | debtlegislation+1 | — | 44m 22s | |
| 4/1/26 | Taxing Choices✨ | tax policybudget+1 | Alex BrillJon McHenry | the American Enterprise InstituteNorth Star Opinion Research+2 | — | American Enterprise InstitutePeterson Foundation+1 | — | 44m 52s | |
| 3/25/26 | Make the Debt Sustainable Again✨ | debteconomics+1 | Jason Furman | Facing the Future | Iran | sustainable debteconomic fallout | — | 44m 41s | |
| 3/18/26 | U.S. Debt Affects Us Now✨ | U.S. debteconomy+2 | Douglas Holtz-Eakin | the American Action Forumthe Congressional Budget Office+1 | U.S. | American Action ForumCongressional Budget Office | — | 44m 58s | |
| 3/11/26 | Congress Needs a Plan for an Economic Shock✨ | economic shockfederal budget+1 | Marc Goldwein | Congressthe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget+1 | — | economic policybudgeting+1 | — | 44m 58s | |
| 3/5/26 | The Fiscal Uncertainty of War Costs✨ | military operationswar costs+3 | — | Facing the Future | U.S.Iran+2 | fiscal uncertaintygovernment spending+1 | — | 44m 58s | |
| 2/25/26 | CBO Projects Record Debt✨ | budgeteconomic projections+2 | Dr Phillip Swagel | CBOthe Congressional Budget Office+2 | — | CBOfiscal fallout+2 | — | 44m 59s | |
| 2/18/26 | Social Security Solvency Will Require Hard Choices✨ | Social Securitytrust fund+2 | Wendell Primus | Social Securitythe Brookings Institution+2 | — | hard choicespolitical pain+1 | — | 44m 49s | |
| 2/10/26 | The Public Can Handle the Truth | This week on Facing the Future, former Comptroller General of the United States and CEO of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) David Walker discussed his efforts to sound the alarm on the dangers of rising debt and unsustainable government commitments. | 44m 51s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | Congress Must Defuse the Debt Bomb | This week on Facing the Future, Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, explained the economic dangers of ignoring the nation's spiraling debt and suggested some Social Security and Medicare reforms that would help. | 44m 58s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | The Economy, Tariffs and Greenland | This week on Facing the Future, former Ambassador to Denmark Richard Swett discusses a way forward on U.S. interests in Greenland and Alex Durante, senior economist at the Tax Foundation, evaluates the impact of President Trump's tariff agenda. | 44m 36s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | Is Defense Spending Going Up? | This week on Facing the Future we examined developments on the national security front with Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of a timely new book called “To Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution” | 44m 52s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | Don't Mess With The Fed's Independence | This week on Facing the Future, former Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) discussed the growing U.S. debt burden, the case for a fiscal commission, and why it's bad policy to attack the Fed's independence. | 44m 52s | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | The Urgency of Social Security Reform | This week on Facing the Future, we discussed Social Security reform with Jason Fichtner, executive director of the LIMRA Retirement Income Institute and former chief economist at the Social Security Administration. With the program's main trust fund projected to be depleted by 2032, prompt action must be taken to avoid sudden benefit cuts. | 44m 45s | ||||||
| 12/24/25 | Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt | This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition executive director Carolyn Bourdeaux and other top members of Concord's staff look back on key fiscal developments of 2025 and the deepening debt challenges of 2026. Join us for Facing the Future's holiday 'Friends and Family' episode. | 44m 49s | ||||||
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