Discover how the U.S. national debt affects your finances and what to know about government borrowing and debt limits.

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

The ballooning debt is owed in part to a tax cut Trump enacted, a report says.

Trump is putting the U.S. economy on a "sugar high" and leaving other people holding the bill when it comes due a decade from ...

Trump did not mention the national debt once during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and very few seemed to notice. The post How Broken Is the Media? Just Look at the Coverage of Trump ...

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The United States’s ballooning national debt might prove more costly than people realize. Far from being just a domestic matter, our debt has national security implications. Jerome Powell, the ...

At the end of Q4, US debt reached $38.51trn, having soared by yet another $2.30trn over 2025. The growing debt-to-GDP ratio ...

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ATLANTA, GEORGIA - OCTOBER 29: Peter G. Peterson Foundation National Debt Clock in Atlanta on October 29, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Peter G. Peterson ...

"The federal budget is out of control, and we face runaway deficits of almost $80 billion for this budget year that ends September 30th," he said. "The deficit is larger than the entire federal budget ...