now exceed the costs of Medicare and the defense budget. SOARING DEFICITS TO PUSH PUBLICLY HELD DEBT TO RECORD LEVEL IN 4 ...

A closer look at the U.S. government's $36 trillion debt — some of which is "intergovernmental," meaning money the government ...

It was raised to about $31.4 trillion—a limit that has now been raised and exceeded with the legislation of June 2023. As of August 2024, the U.S. national debt stands at over $35 trillion.

Long a focus of conservatives, the level of public borrowing is starting to concern left-leaning economists. Proposed ...

The U.S. national debt currently stands at $36.2 trillion, according to the Treasury Department. The U.S. currently runs at a roughly 123 percent debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio ...

Rising deficits and interest costs impede economic growth and undermine global trust in the dollar.

That threat is our national debt, which recently topped $36 trillion. The facts about the national debt are dire, and its dangerous trajectory has only accelerated in recent years. In February ...

The U.S. is playing Russian roulette by not addressing the national debt. We need to get our act together before it's too late.