The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency is making waves in Washington, DC, with its crackdown on USAID and mission to slash wasteful spending and make the federal government more ...

The national debt jumped $1 trillion in 82 days and is expected to keep climbing. How that could affect you and your financial health.

The U.S. national debt is rapidly approaching $37 trillion with no signs of slowing down as President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is projected to raise budget deficits by $2.4 trillion over a ...

The national debt is rising faster than ever and threatens to undermine confidence in the economy, experts warn.

Thomas Massie wants to remind everyone the U.S. debt is over $31.4 trillion and rising. So, he's wearing a custom made debt clock on his lapel to the State of the Union address Tuesday, reports say.

In 1989, a New York businessman who was worried about chronic federal budget deficits erected the National Debt Clock in midtown Manhattan to keep a tally of how much the U.S. government owes. The ...

News this week that credit card debt balances are on the decline was a positive step in the right direction, both for the country and for individual cardholders. But it's only the first step in a ...

People have been worrying about U.S. debt basically ever since there even was a U.S. “The accumulation of debts is a most fearful evil,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1787. At the time, U.S. debt was ...