In 2001, when George W. Bush took office, the U.S. national debt was approximately 33% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This figure was the outcome of years of bipartisan fiscal discipline, ...

The United States national debt crossed $39 trillion for the first time Tuesday, arriving at the grim milestone less than ...

The federal government is taking on record amounts of debt year after year. The U.S. owes lenders more than $36 trillion. That is close to an all-time high when comparing the debt to the country’s ...

The U.S. government's budget deficits are now projected to worsen throughout the next decade when compared with earlier forecasts this year, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Committee for ...

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget sees a critical threshold crossing by 2031—and the consequences could be ...

The US 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 data ...

The U.S. national debt is nearly $39 trillion. One of the country’s top fiscal economists says the real number is closer to ...

Last week, the national debt surpassed $37 trillion, twice what it was just a decade ago. Once upon a time, the national debt was the subject of intense national debate. Democrats and Republicans once ...

The U.S. national debt is on pace to break a record set after World War II in four years, while annual budget deficits are projected to balloon to $3 trillion a year a decade from now, according to a ...