Charles Blahous, a trustee of the Social Security program (and a former colleague, I should note), offers today a superb overview of the challenges surrounding the impending depletion of the Social Security disability trust fund. He explains why it matters, why the rule adopted by the House last week to prevent simply moving money from the program’s retirement trust fund into the disability fund was the right move, and what a real solution would look like. This will be one of the debates that define this new congress, and he shows why with his usual clarity and force.

It makes me wonder, yet again, if anyone can point to any reason why Blahous shouldn’t be the next CBO director.