The United States has piled up debt approaching $39 trillion as lawmakers approve annual budgets with 13-figure deficits and outlays on mandatory spending rise with the aging population. There is ...

The ballooning debt is owed in part to a tax cut Trump enacted, a report says.

The U.S. government added $696 billion to the national debt over the past four months, borrowing $94 billion in the month of January alone, the Congressional Budget ...

The United States national debt has soared by trillions of dollars during President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States had a $173.3 billion monthly deficit in November, a month affected by the federal government shutdown and a pause in some government services. By comparison, the United ...

The United States national debt has reached a precarious milestone, hitting 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and placing the nation on a trajectory that could trigger six distinct types of fiscal ...

The United States’ national debt, currently standing at $38 trillion and exceeding 120% of annual economic output, demands action, experts warn. The nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation gathered a ...