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

The legislation for Trump's agenda on taxes, health care, immigration, energy and more would add $3.3 trillion to the deficit ...

Donald Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' cleared both chambers of Congress and now awaits the president’s signature to ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ June 27 The New York Times say the rising national debt is already troublesome The rise of the federal debt over the past two ...

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

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

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

By Dr. Mike Walden When I recently reviewed my columns of past years, I was surprised I hadn’t written about “the debt” — meaning the national debt — in six years. If anything, concerns about the ...

"It only passed the house by one vote with a $2.3 trillion increase in the debt. To ask the House to vote for a bill that ...

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 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 ...