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U.S. To Spend $24.4 Trillion More Than It Has Over the Next Decade, Report Warns

The cost of paying the interest is now the central story, and it's a grim one.

Reason

$56 trillion national debt leading to a spiraling crisis: budget watchdog warns the U.S. is walking a crumbling path

Trump is putting the U.S. economy on a "sugar high" and leaving other people holding the bill when it comes due a decade from now, according to the CRFB.

Fortune

A U.S. 'debt spiral' could start soon as the interest rate on government borrowing is poised to exceed economic growth, budget watchdog says

CRFB warned the actual fiscal outlook could be far worse than even the latest sobering projections.

Fortune

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Trump's immigration curbs will help take 2.4 million people out of the workforce, but he's betting AI can pick up the slack

Can AI make up lost productivity from crashing fertility rates and shrinking immigration flows? Trump will certainly hope so.

Fortune

Interest on the National Debt Will Cost $16 Trillion Over the Next 10 Years

A new Congressional Budget Office outlook expects entitlement spending and the national debt to explode in the next decade.

Reason

‘Nothing short of self-sabotage’: Watchdog warns about national debt setting new record in just 4 years

“Our nation’s deficits, debt, interest payments, and trust funds are all in terrible shape,” says Maya MacGuineas, president of the CRFB.

Fortune

America’s national debt borrowing binge means interest payments will rocket to $2 trillion a year by 2036, CBO says

Annual interest payments will double to $2.14 trillion by 2036, nearly double the yearly budget for spending on defense.

Fortune

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‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit

The national debt is set to surpass the historic high of 106% of GDP (which it reached in 1946) by 2030, according to the CBO.

Fortune

CBO: Federal deficits and debt to worsen over next decade

The Congressional Budget Office projects worsening federal deficits and rising debt over the next decade, driven by increased spending on Social Security, Medicare, and debt service payments

The Independent UK

America borrowed $43.5 billion a week in the first four months of the fiscal year, with debt interest on track to be over $1 trillion for 2026

“The longer lawmakers wait, the higher the price for Americans,” warned Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Fortune

Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities Cost Half a Billion Dollars in 2025

Maintaining a uniformed domestic security force is pricey in terms of life, liberty, and dollars.

Reason

'Immigrants are subsidizing the U.S. government': how the undocumented actually shrank the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 3 decades

Cato Institute ran the math and found that without immigrants' contributions, the national debt would be a third higher than today's $38 trillion.

Fortune

Kevin Warsh will inherit a challenge no Fed chief has faced since post-World War II

Debt and deficits will put Kevin Warsh under great pressure to keep interest rates low and rely on short term borrowing. But long term that will have serious consequences.

Fortune

The Latest: FBI executes search warrant at Fulton County elections office near Atlanta

FBI agents are executing a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta

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The American taxpayer spent nearly half a billion dollars deploying federal troops to U.S. cities in 2025, CBO finds

Trump’s federal troop deployment to U.S. cities is costing about $93 million a month, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Roll Call

CBO: National Guard deployments cost half-billion dollars

Patrols in six U.S. cities cost about $496 million in 2025, and continued deployments would cost about $93 million per month.

Fortune

Trump's own Big Beautiful Bill could add $5.5 trillion to the deficit and sabotage his plan to 'grow out' of the national debt crisis

Prior to the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump’s “growth” math stood a chance of closing the gap. Now it’s much harder to see it working.

Fortune

How the middle class was hollowed out from 1979 to 2022, according to new federal data

The top 1% saw its share of household income double from 1979 to 2022, going from 9% to 18%, the CBO said. The middle cohort saw the biggest decline.

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Taking Judicial Notice Of "Very Elite" Economic Predictions

Can the Court base its ruling in Cook on predictions of a recession?

Axios

Trump's "Department of War" rebrand could cost $125 million

The CBO cautioned its estimate is "uncertain," however, because the Pentagon declined to share info.

Fortune

Trump’s ‘Department of War’ rebrand could cost $125 million, says the CBO, for the likes of replacement stationery and new signs

A conservative estimate would be $10m, wrote the Congressional Budget Office, but depends on how aggressive the Department of War wants to be with its rebrand.

Fortune

America’s $38 trillion national debt is so big just the interest will soon cost more than Medicare

The staggering math behind the rapid rise in interest due on our outsize debt.

Fortune

Treasury spent $276 billion in interest on the national debt in the final three months of 2025, says the CBO—up $30 billion from a year prior

The costs were higher because of a larger budget burden, the CBO said, as well as "higher long‐term interest rates and an increase in the rate of inflation."

The Independent UK

Budget office expects Federal Reserve to cut rates in 2026

The Congressional Budget Office has released new economic projections, expecting the Federal Reserve to cut short-term rates in 2026

The Independent UK

More Americans will die than be born in 2030 - meaning immigration will be the only form of population growth, study says

Without immigration, the population will start to decline by 2030

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