This brought the total federal debt to over $31 trillion. With the current Fed Funds rate at ... a clearer plan is in place ...

By Jim Tankersley WASHINGTON — America’s debt is now six times ... an average of about $1.3 trillion a year for the next decade. The United States hit its $31.4 trillion legal limit on ...

There are public holders and government agencies, which all comes into play in the congressional debt ceiling battle.

No one likes tax hikes, but with $31 trillion in national debt, they must be in the ... members of Congress and their staffs would come to us with creative ways to raise spending or cut taxes.

The U.S. could hit its self-imposed $31.4 trillion debt limit ... the first time in history that the US would default on any of its obligations due to the debt ceiling law.” ...

The United States ... limit of $31.381 trillion on Thursday, forcing the Treasury Department to start using “extraordinary measures” to avoid a market-shaking default on its debt.

The U.S. national debt hit an all-time high of $31.5 trillion in January 2023. Precipitated in part by higher government ...

Reckless borrowing and spending are what got us into this fiscal mess and more of the same won’t get us out.  There is no ...

While President Joe Biden is pushing to raise the debt ceiling, Republicans insist the $31.4 trillion national debt is breaking the economy.  For all the sound and fury about raising the United States ...

On Thursday, January 19, the US federal government reached its statutory debt limit of $31.4 trillion. Never before has the debt been that high, but among many there seems to be no sense of urgency.