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US debt tops $37 trillion and the ‘large, stunning invoice’ permits it rise trillions larger

Editorial Board Published August 18, 2025
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Committee for a Accountable Federal Funds President Maya MacGuineas discusses tariff income and the way President Donald Trumps tax invoice will have an effect on the deficit on Mornings with Maria.

The federal authorities’s gross nationwide debt topped $37 trillion for the primary time in historical past final week, and the U.S. has room so as to add trillions of {dollars} extra to the debt following the enactment of the One Large Lovely Invoice Act (OBBBA).

President Donald Trump on July 4 signed OBBBA into legislation, which included a $5 trillion debt restrict enhance to avert a possible stand-off over the borrowing restrict that was projected to be reached later in the summertime. Failing to lift the debt restrict may put the U.S. authorities susceptible to defaulting on its debt obligations, which might roil monetary markets and certain result in larger rates of interest on the debt to account for that danger.

The debt restrict has been utilized by each events as leverage to safe their varied priorities in negotiations over federal spending and tax insurance policies, although that political dysfunction and brinksmanship has contributed to the U.S. credit standing being downgraded by the three main score businesses within the years since 2011.

NATIONAL DEBT TRACKER: AMERICAN TAXPAYERS (YOU) ARE NOW ON THE HOOK FOR $37,089,430,594,354.58 AS OF 8/15/25

The One Large Lovely Invoice Act raised the debt restrict by $5 trillion, pushing it above $41 trillion. (Kevin Carter/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)

“The fact that it was included in the OBBB, of course, means that we have avoided the worst risks and potential costs that could come from not dealing with the debt limit in a timely manner, but it didn’t spur a meaningful broader conversation about the unsustainable fiscal trajectory that we are on as a country,” Shai Akabas, vice chairman of financial coverage on the Bipartisan Coverage Heart, advised FOX Enterprise in an interview.

Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Accountable Federal Funds (CRFB), expressed an analogous sentiment, telling FOX Enterprise, “The fact that policymakers managed to enact the most expensive reconciliation bill in history alongside the largest debt limit increase in history is a sign of how far we’ve fallen from taking our fiscal health seriously.” 

US BUDGET DEFICIT HAS WIDENED BY $109B FROM A YEAR AGO DESPITE INFLUX OF TARIFF REVENUE

Akabas famous that the inclusion of the debt restrict within the OBBBA marked the primary time it had been raised via the funds reconciliation course of, which he stated is “an acknowledgement that neither party really views the debt limit as an effective tool for fiscal restraint. It was just tacked onto a bill that is estimated to increase the debt by somewhere between $3 and $4 trillion.” 

RAY DALIO WARNS OF LOOMING FISCAL CRISIS IF US DOESN’T ADDRESS DEFICIT SPENDING: ‘ECONOMIC HEART ATTACK’

With the debt restrict $5 trillion larger than it was earlier this yr and now sitting at greater than $41 trillion, lawmakers are more likely to have a few years till the debt restrict approaches once more, although Akabas famous that have makes it cheap to doubt it is going to kick-start a severe debate about fiscal reforms.

He famous that there are a selection of proposals in Congress and in coverage circles for reforming the debt restrict, reminiscent of via the creation of a fiscal fee that will craft budgetary reforms, or laws just like the Accountable Budgeting Act. That proposal would de-risk the debt restrict’s potential influence on the economic system by permitting the debt restrict to be suspended in alternate for Congress voting on particular debt discount measures.

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