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

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

National debt has become one of the defining pressure points of the global economy, shaping everything from interest rates to ...

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 ...

Many Americans are unhappy about years of higher-than-normal inflation that have sapped buying power and reduced standards of living. Now, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) demonstrates that a ...

The federal government added roughly $1.8 trillion to the now $38 trillion national debt in fiscal year 2025. While net interest on the debt totaled $970 billion, according to the Congressional Budget ...

The national debt is, well, monumental. Currently, it’s north of $34 trillion. There are all kinds of ideas for shrinking the government’s annual budget shortfall and minimizing its impact on the ...

If Congress won’t slash the spending that constitutes low-hanging fruit – subsidies for National Public Radio, for example, or mandatory reductions-in-force across the vast federal government – there ...

MINNEAPOLIS — If you wince when look at your monthly credit card bill, you might not believe what the U.S. government has racked up. The national debt now tops more than $34 trillion. That's a new ...

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 ...