The DI trust fund is expected to dry up in 2018, 22 years before the trust fund for Social Security retirees does.

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Without federal gas taxes, the highway trust fund would dry up.

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What, then, you may ask, is the Social Security Trust Fund, the pool of money that people say will dry up and make it impossible for anyone to receive their Social Security payments?

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