US national debt

Servicing the owed interest is now the second-largest budgetary item, topping national defense outlays.

The U.S. debt ceiling is a relic from another time that serves no useful purpose and should be ...

President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget proposal assumes that government income will be 19.6 percent of the country’s gross ...

The Biden administration is racing to avert a rail shutdown, hosting talks with railroad and union officials. Mortgage ...

WASHINGTON—Republican senators David Perdue of Georgia and Rand Paul of Kentucky admonished Congress Wednesday to confront America’s exploding ...

The national debt has increased from $11 trillion to a record $18.2 trillion over the past seven years ...