"The United States is deeply indebted, and its finances are on an unsustainable long-term trajectory," says the Committee for ...

That assumes a growth rate similar to the last decade’s. If the debt rockets up like it has over the last few years, the ...

America's National Debt Hits $38 Trillion and Is Now Set to 'Grow Faster Than the Economy' ...

"We won’t be able to fix the debt without touching Social Security, Medicare, defense, or revenue—the math just doesn’t work. And we can’t count on heroic growth rates or crashing interest rates," ...

U.S. debt tops $38T as debt-to-GDP surges and foreign banks shift from Treasuries to gold. Read the full analysis here.

"There are fewer opportunities," Kurt Couchman added. "The opportunities that are there aren't paying as well. Productivity is being suppressed." ...

Representatives Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and Scott Peters (D-CA), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum (BFF), joine ...

If federal policymakers want to make life more affordable, both now and in the future, they should cap their own spending.

The U.S. national debt surpassed another historic milestone as it topped $38 trillion for the first time this week, as the federal government continues to rack up debt at a record-setting pace. New ...

President Donald Trump’s first year of his second, nonconsecutive term brought all sorts of changes. His administration shuttered the United States Agency for International Development, had the ...

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