The federal budget deficit totaled $1.74 trillion between November 2024 and October 2025 according to estimates from the ...

America's debt has the potential not only to destabilize the economy, but to drive democracy even closer to the edge.

The national debt now stands at more than $38 trillion. The tariff revenue we rake in is just a drop in the bucket compared ...

Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and other economists have sounded the alarm about the U.S.

Quietly tucked inside Republicans’ funding deal to end the government shutdown is a provision wiping the congressional Pay-As ...

The national debt jumped $1 trillion in 82 days and is expected to keep climbing. How that could affect you and your ...

America’s $38 trillion national debt isn’t really because of bad math or budgeting, top economist Barry Eichengreen says. It ...

In a new projection from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the federal budget deficit - the gap between government revenue vs. spending - will be $1.9 trillion for the 2024 fiscal year. The ...

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 U.S. national debt surpassed $38 trillion on Wednesday, reaching its fastest-ever $1 trillion increase outside the COVID-19 pandemic. The American national debt hit $1 trillion in 1981, $2 ...