On the 249th anniversary of independence, the story of America’s national debt reveals a legacy of wars, tax cuts, and ...

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Donald Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' cleared both chambers of Congress and now awaits the president’s signature to ...

The United States on Friday reached $37 trillion in debt, less than a year after it surpassed $36 trillion .

Ben Harris is director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and the former chief economist at the Treasury ...

The national debt now stands at $107,000 per citizen, with the debt-to-gross domestic product ratio exceeding 100%.

The odds of a federal debt crisis just got worse. On Thursday, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill, a sweeping piece of legislation that threatens to leave the government with one big, ...

The Republican budget will add trillions to the national debt. Trump should channel Eisenhower to keep things in check.

By Dr. Mike Walden When I recently reviewed my columns of past years, I was surprised I hadn’t written about “the debt” — meaning the national debt — in six years. If anything, concerns about the ...

Yes, compromise is inevitable, but Congress has a singular chance now to reduce the budget deficit through the Big Beautiful ...

"It only passed the house by one vote with a $2.3 trillion increase in the debt. To ask the House to vote for a bill that ...

The rise of the federal debt over the past two decades has prompted countless warnings that the United States is approaching a fiscal reckoning, a day when the government won’t be able to drink all it ...