Social Security Solvency Will Require Hard Choices
From Facing the Future by The Concord Coalition
February 18, 2026 · 45 min · Episode 412
About this episode
Wendell Primus discusses his plan to prevent Social Security trust fund insolvency by 2032.
This week on Facing the Future Wendell Primus, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former Senior Policy Advisor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, described his plan to keep the Social Security trust fund from becoming insolvent as soon as 2032. Some political pain will be required.
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Guest: Wendell Primus
Topics covered
- Social Security
- trust fund
- insolvency
- policy
Keywords
- hard choices
- political pain
- Brookings Institution
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