Elon Musk's DOGE aims to cut $4T from the federal budget, but the $36T national debt remains a major challenge.

Commuters wait at a bus stop in front of a National Debt Clock displaying the United States gross national debt and each American family's share of the debt in Washington DC, on December 30 ...

The U.S. national debt ... is not the future any of us want, and it’s no way to run a great nation like ours." LARGE DEFICITS, HIGH INTEREST RATES MAKING FEDERAL DEBT LESS SUSTAINABLE The ...

The cap at the time was $31.4 trillion. In a technical quirk, the US didn’t actually hit the limit on January 2 because the debt level was projected to dip that day due to the scheduled redemption of ...