This week the United States national debt surpassed $39 trillion. With that about 39 cents of every dollar paid in individual income taxes—goes toward interest payments.

The U.S. national debt reached another historic milestone on Wednesday as it surpassed $39 trillion for the first time as the federal government's persistent budget deficits send the debt soaring ...

Look at this number. Stare at it. Let it sink in. $39,000,000,000,000. Thirty-nine trillion dollars. That is the staggering, ...

According to projections by US experts, over the next decade the national debt will rise to approximately 120% of GDP WASHINGTON, March 18. /TASS/. The US national debt has exceeded the $39 trillion ...

The United States' growing reliance on short-term debt financing is eroding the very buffers the government depends on to ...

The U.S. is now $39 trillion in debt. Politicians have been fighting over the federal spending for decades and even briefly balanced the budget at the end of then-President Bill Clinton’s term. But ...

New Jerseyans can expect to pile up an average of nearly $2.2 million of debt during their lifetimes; here's how it breaks ...