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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