Romina Boccia
Romina Boccia is director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, where she specializes in federal spending, budget process, economic implications of rising debt, and Social Security and Medicare reform. She’s the principal author behind the Debt Dispatch, the no.1 fiscal newsletter read by members of Congress.
Romina Boccia Articles
US public debt has reached 100 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) for the first time since the aftermath of World War II. Just because we have been here before, and we managed, doesn’t mean we will do so again. This time is different...
President Donald Trump is discovering what Joe Biden learned the hard way: voters don’t easily forgive price increases. Despite inflation cooling from its peak, two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling inflation,...
Washington has a habit of changing its budget goals — not because the country solved the spending-driven debt problem, but because each goal proved harder than lawmakers were willing to confront.I remember working on fiscal policy in 2011...
Within a decade, every dollar collected in revenue will be spent on health care, Social Security, and interest on existing debt.
