The U.S. government’s debt is not a cause for concern, as it is self-funded and the Federal Reserve can always step in to ...

The federal budget deficit is back in the spotlight after the Republican-controlled Congress approved a massive tax and ...

President Trump’s newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, by most conventional estimates, add trillions to America’s ...

Concerns about the national debt from Elon Musk and some Republican lawmakers is complicating the path to passage for Trump's ...

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 ...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is required by law to provide economic analyses on major legislation.

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

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

The national debt of the United States has surpassed $36.2 trillion, raising alarms among economists, credit rating agencies, and business leaders.

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

The United States owes more than $36 trillion. Washington now spends close to $2 trillion more each year than it collects in revenue, forcing the Treasury Department to borrow to make up the ...

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