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

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is required by law to provide economic analyses on major legislation.

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

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

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

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

The national debt now stands at $107,000 per citizen, with the debt-to-gross domestic product ratio exceeding 100%.

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 ...

Red state voters across America voiced alarm about the growing national debt, with some criticizing President Donald Trump's own spending habits.

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 ...

"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 ...

Yes, compromise is inevitable, but Congress has a singular chance now to reduce the budget deficit through the Big Beautiful ...