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National debt is one of the only things Republican and Democrat voters are equally concerned about

Rising debt’s wide-reaching consequences are a rare point of shared concern for voters.

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AI could solve America's $39 trillion debt crisis—but only if Washington abandons displaced workers, Yale Budget Lab warns

A Yale Budget Lab report suggests AI-driven productivity gains could reverse the national debt's upward trajectory. But what about the workers?

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‘Cut up the credit cards:’ Members of Congress are getting brutal about ‘embarrassing’ $39 trillion national debt

“It’s only going to get worse until we cut up the credit cards and get serious.”

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US national debt is now bigger than the economy for first time since World War II

Lawmakers urged to ‘stop the bleeding’ and put the country on a more sustainable fiscal path

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The national debt is the same size as the economy. It's a 'disturbing warning and a call to action,' watchdog says

A new bipartisan survey finds near-universal concern that the national debt is driving up everyday costs, as fiscal confidence hits a 22-month low

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The national debt fix would cost $827 billion—roughly what America spends on its entire military, economists warn

A Cato Institute report lays out the scale of America's fiscal reckoning as the tools that once tamed the debt are no longer available.

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Jamie Dimon gets candid about national debt: ‘There will be a bond crisis, and then we’ll have to deal with it’

“The level of things that are adding to the risk column are high, like geopolitics, oil, government deficits. And they may go away, but they may not.”

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The $39 trillion national debt just got its own version of the viral Doomsday essay

Centrist political group No Labels is using science fiction to sound the alarm: "Neither party has any credibility on the debt or deficit right now."

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Trump’s ‘gold card’ visas were going to solve $39 trillion national debt. They’ve sold only one

Gold card revenue “may be earmarked for deficit reduction, but it actually could be more money than that,” Trump previously told reporters.

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US Treasury Department Adds Venmo Option to Solicit Public Donations for Staggering $39 Trillion National Debt Burden

The US Treasury now accepts Venmo and PayPal for debt donations, sparking viral attention, though the effort has little impact on the nation's $39 trillion debt.

International Business Times UK

When interest on national debt overtook military spending, it triggered a limit where the U.S. may ‘cease to be a great power,’ warns Hoover historian

“The debt burden draws scarce resources towards itself, reducing the amount available for national security, and leaving the power increasingly vulnerable to military challenge.”

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The director of the Congressional Budget Office—known for its gloomy national debt data—is very optimistic that a crisis will be avoided entirely

“Making progress to address the fiscal trajectory would be a positive for the U.S. economy,” Swagel said. “We can’t go on [with] the scolding narrative.”

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Something is different about Trump's $1 trillion war on Iran and its stress on the national debt, Harvard Kennedy scholar says

During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, debt held by the public was around $4 trillion. Now it's $31 trillion, and 15% of the budget pays down interest.

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A world going broke: IMF says America's $39 trillion national debt is actually a global problem—and AI may be the only rescue

Global public debt is barreling toward 100% of world GDP, the fund warned Wednesday. Governments everywhere are spending money they don’t have.

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Trump has no plan to cut the $39 trillion national debt, but he does want to cut childcare. His budget director is scrambling to clarify

OMB Director Russell Vought appeared before Congress to answer questions about the request for the largest military spending boost since World War II.

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The next generation of senators has a ticking time bomb in their lap: Social Security’s insolvency, without a plan for national debt

“My hope would be that, come January, the campaign is over and [they] lay down some of the weapons and pick up some of the calculators and pencils, and try and come up with a solution.”

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‘We owe it to the next generation’ to get national debt under control, says think tank boss, as U.S. borrowing hits $1.2 trillion in just six months

“We can fight over who got the worst end of the shortest stick, but we clearly are doing a disservice to anybody participating in the economy in the future,” Michael Peterson, CEO of the Peterson Foundation, tells Fortune.

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The U.S. government is spending $88 billion a month in interest on national debt, equal to its spending on both defense and education combined

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, called on lawmakers to “ultimately fix the broken process that got us into this mess.”

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The U.S. had a national debt ‘home run’ in its grasp, says Jamie Dimon. The government did nothing, and now its best option is crisis management

“We haven’t had the will yet to actually deal with it, and it’s unfortunate because it can end up with a real problem, worse than it would otherwise have been. Good policy is free,” Dimon said.

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Trump, the $39 trillion national debt, rosy growth assumptions and the question of 'a sustainable path'

The White House is betting 3% GDP growth will shrink the deficit—but faster growth would likely drive up interest costs on the $39 trillion national debt.

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Trump wants to add nearly $7 trillion to the $39 trillion national debt with his new military budget, watchdog warns

Trump's proposal would be "by far the largest year-over-year increase in defense spending in the post-WWII era," the CRFB said.

Reason

10 Years Ago Today, Trump Promised To Eliminate the National Debt. Instead, It Has Doubled.

Trump's ridiculous, grandiose promise tells us something about the federal government's fiscal affairs and the president's approach to policy.

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Jerome Powell says $39 trillion national debt is ‘not unsustainable,’ but warns the trajectory ‘will not end well’

“The federal government debt is growing substantially faster than our economy,” the Fed chair told a roomful of Harvard students.

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‘There is no silver lining in this trajectory’: Budget watchdog warns of financial, inflation, or currency crisis due to $39 trillion national debt

“It took decades to get us into this hole, and it will take a concerted effort to get out of it.”

Fortune

Iran, the $39 trillion national debt and dedollarization: How Trump exposed America's Achilles Heel in Hormuz

With the national debt at $39 trillion and dollar dominance already at a 30-year low, the petrodollar system is more visible—and threatened—than ever.

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