President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" includes major changes to federal spending and tax policies. The Congressional Budget ...

Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace ...

Republicans and Democrats have been arguing for months about the pros and cons of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful ...

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

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

The CBO says it would add $3.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. For decades, fiscal hawks have warned about the ...

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

The national debt is nearing a staggering $37 trillion, and concerns are mounting over the potential impact of Trump's "Big ...

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

Arizona's Republican congressmen were against increasing the national debt ...until Donald Trump said jump and they proceeded ...

High school students shocked to learn about the $37 trillion national debt and their $323,051 share per taxpayer as their teacher explains government spending consequences ...

I show them that in July of 2020 debt service was only $386 billion a year and the national debt was $26 trillion. I ask why would debt service be 2.6 times as high now when the national debt is "only ...