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Friedberg: Social Security will be functionally bankrupt in eight years

David Friedberg · DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s · Feb 7, 2025 · at 1:00:58

David Friedberg, investor and All-In Podcast co-host, argues that managing federal trust assets more effectively is critical due to impending entitlement system insolvency.

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“Social Security's functionally going to be bankrupt in eight years.”

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The claim, plainly

The U.S. Social Security system will be functionally bankrupt within eight years.

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Assessment

The claim predicts functional bankruptcy (reserve exhaustion) of the U.S. Social Security system within eight years of February 7, 2025 (by February 7, 2033). As of July 30, 2026, official reports from the Social Security Trustees and CBO project OASI reserve exhaustion in 2032 (Q4 2032). However, because the target timeframe has not yet transpired, actual depletion/insolvency cannot be confirmed until the 2032-2033 window is reached.

2026 Social Security Trustees Report projects OASI Trust Fund reserve exhaustion in the fourth quarter of 2032.
2026 CBO baseline projections estimate OASI Trust Fund exhaustion in 2032.
The target horizon date of February 7, 2033 has not yet passed as of the evaluation date of July 30, 2026.

Checked against

[1] crfb.org [2] ssa.gov [3] ssa.gov [4] dartmouth.edu [5] actuary.org [6] nosscr.org [7] bipartisanpolicy.org [8] nrln.org

CBO Social Security projections "OASI" depletion year 2024 2025 2026 Social Security Trustees report trust fund exhaustion date OASI OASDI 2024 2025 CBO "2024 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees" Social Security OASI OASDI exhaustion depletion date CBO Social Security trust fund insolvency date OASI OASDI

assessed as of 2026-07-30

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⏳ prediction date: 2033-02-07; checked again automatically on the next resolution wave

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