The country’s external debt service burden increased in the 10 months to October 2024 as foreign debt hit an all-time high of ...

The national debt is expected to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of ...

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the U.S. government’s fiscal health is bleak, Congress’s nonpartisan ...

This letter serves to notify you, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 8348(l)(2), of the extraordinary measures that Treasury will begin ...

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the U.S. government’s fiscal health is bleak, with debt and deficits ...

The new budget forecasts predicted that the United States will record a $1.9 trillion budget deficit this fiscal year and ...

And it will immediately face a familiar problem: The debt ceiling — the limit on how much money, in total, the United States can borrow — which the Treasury is close to hitting. When this last ...

The nation’s debt ceiling was reinstated Thursday, giving congressional Republicans yet another divisive challenge to contend with in 2025. President-elect Donald Trump is demanding that GOP ...

Net interest payments on the national debt exceeded $892 billion in the 2024 fiscal year. The IMF projects that by 2034, annual interest payments in the U.S. will hit $1.7 trillion and cumulative ...

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FINANCIAL EXPERT SHARES YEAR-END MONEY MOVES TO TACKLE, AVOID HOLIDAY CREDIT CARD HANGOVER The report showed total household debt also climbed to a new high of $17.94 trillion, along with balances ...