Will there be a 2016 lame-duck disability bailout?

Published January 7, 2015 4:42pm ET



If you thought the lame-duck Congress that met in December — in which House Speaker John Boehner cut a deal with President Obama to fund almost all of Obama’s programs through the rest of the current fiscal year — was a bad deal for America, wait until the next lame-duck Congress convenes after the 2016 election.

That could be the “bipartisan” moment for a bailout of the federal disability program — and perhaps Social Security with it.

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