Trump’s first year back in the White House closed with the U.S. national debt roughly $2.25 trillion higher than when he ...

The sweeping legislation, which passed in July, renewed the 2017 tax cuts for individuals and granted additional tax breaks, ...

Spiraling interest payments—which grew from $352 billion in 2021 to $970 billion in 2025—put the debt train on an accelerated ...

Central planning is bad, which means government spending is bad. Contra the most prominent number in economics (GDP), government spending is by its very name an economic wrecking ball. These truths ra ...

The United States' national debt is on track to double over the next three decades amid a rush of spending by the White House ...

Lawmakers introduced a bipartisan proposal to cap annual deficits at 3% of GDP, but this resolution would still permit ...

The total national debt of the United States has hit $38 trillion, an unwelcome milestone that comes as lawmakers grapple with a looming fiscal reckoning. The unwanted achievement comes amid a ...

America has had gigantic budget deficits and debt that have been dangerous and ballooning for years, yet it’s only recently ...

The December budget deficit came in at $144.75 billion, a record for the month and 68 percent higher than last year.

"While in many ways it feels like the U.S. holds the economic cards, it doesn’t hold all the funding cards in a world that ...

Trump ways he wants to spend half a trillion more dollars on military spending, even as federal spending persists at ...