Breaking down the national debt. Every year, the United States government spends money on programs and services like Social Security and healthcare while receiving revenue through methods like federal ...

Welcome to "the new norm": interest payments over $1 trillion every year from here on out, to service the large and growing national debt.

The gross national debt reached $38 trillion on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Treasury. It was just over two months ago in August that the gross debt hit $37 trillion. This unusual pace of the ...

Many Americans have heard that they should worry about the staggering size of the national debt. For the first time in modern ...

Budget watchdogs are sounding the alarm as the U.S. hit an unfortunate fiscal milestone in fiscal year 2025: government ...

Before devolving into personal attacks, the clash between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk began with a disagreement over the country's ballooning debt. Musk publicly condemned what Trump hopes ...

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When President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law, it sparked major discussions on the outlook of the nation’s budget and the national debt. When President Donald Trump signed the ...