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

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

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

Budget analysts say the GOP tax cut and spending bill would add trillions to the government's debt over the next 10 years.

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 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 ...

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

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will increase the national debt by trillions. But that doesn't bother Arizona's self-professed ...