President Trump’s newly passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act will, by most conventional estimates, add trillions to America’s ...

Two decades after a GOP vice president declared that deficits don’t matter, Trump and his party are going all out to test ...

When I recently reviewed my columns of past years, I was surprised I hadn’t written about “the debt” — meaning the national debt — in six years.

The U.S. government’s debt is not a cause for concern, as it is self-funded and the Federal Reserve can always step in to ...

One alarming issue is our ballooning national debt. The Bureau of the Treasury reported that, as of January 2025, the ...

As of July 3, 2025, the U.S. national debt stands at $36.2 trillion. Much like bank loans, the national debt has interest ...

Now that the budget bill has passed Congress, we can see clear projections for how it will impact deficits, government debt, and debt service expenses.

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

The U.S. tax and spending bill passed on July 3 is expected to add more than $3 trillion to the country’s deficit over the ...

Mr. Bernstein was the chair of President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2023 to 2025. Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our ...