{"id":819505,"date":"2026-08-20T04:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819505\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:26:09","slug":"us-national-debt-hits-40-trillion-rising-by-90k-per-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819505\/","title":{"rendered":"US national debt hits $40 trillion, rising by $90K per second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 The U.S.<a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/topic\/National%20debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> national debt<\/a> crossed a record $40 trillion this week\u2014a figure economists and lawmakers expect will continue to surge.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee reveals that the debt grew at an astonishing rate of $90,000 per second over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO |<a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/19-year-old-arrested-stabbing-fairfax-county-great-falls-police-homicide-murder-arrest-suspect-carmen-lizet-puch-alexis-antonio-cedillos-campos-park-georgetown-pike-reston-northern-virginia-crime-descano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> 19-year-old illegal immigrant arrested after deadly Great Falls stabbing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To break down what this means, 7News spoke with Don Boudreaux of George Mason University&#8217;s Department of Economics. <\/p>\n<p>Boudreaux addresses the core drivers behind the rapid increase, how it impacts everyday families, and potential paths toward <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/topic\/Fiscal%20recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fiscal recovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><p>U.S. national debt hits $40 trillion, rising by $90,000 a second (7News)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview in the video player above, or track the real-time figures on the live <a href=\"https:\/\/www.us-debt-clock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. debt clock<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (7News) \u2014 The U.S. national debt crossed a record $40 trillion this week\u2014a figure economists and lawmakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-819505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}