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 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 ...

Ha, we totally forgot about the giant national-debt clock in Times Square, which was put up by real-estate developer Seymour Durst in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion deficit.

The nation will hit its roughly $36 trillion debt limit on Tuesday, when the Treasury Department will start taking extraordinary measures to allow the government to pay its bills, outgoing Treasury ...