Federal spending on national debt interest, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid drives the budget deficit $35 billion ...

America’s debt burden has hit $38 trillion. In fact, at the time of writing, it is $19 billion over that mark. Economists are warning that spectators won’t have to wait long until debt hits the $39 ...

Explore how the U.S. national debt climbed from $71 million to $39 trillion over 250 years and what economists say about its ...

The United States is rapidly accelerating toward a definitive tipping point in its financial history, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) wrote in response to the latest 10-year ...

Only nine months into fiscal year 2026, the U.S. government has already borrowed $1.4 trillion, surpassing the entire federal deficit of the previous fiscal year. The federal government collected $4.2 ...

The United States' national debt is on track to double over the next three decades amid a rush of spending by the White House and Congress.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. U.S. debt has now climbed above the size of the entire economy — a threshold that signals ...

Washington quickly brushed off a startling milestone in a mounting problem. By Peter Coy For years, deficit hawks have been groping for ways to shock politicians and the public into getting serious ...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s 10-year outlook projects worsening long-term federal deficits and rising debt, driven largely by increased spending, notably on Social Security, Medicare, ...