Figure 1: Debt Held by the Public under Two Fiscal Policy Simulations

    This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-28SP

    Note: Data are from GAO’s Fall 2011 simulations based on the Trustees’ assumptions for Social Security and the Trustees’ and the CMS Actuary’s assumptions for Medicare.

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