The US national debt has now risen by about $571.28 billion this year, with Treasury Department data showing that the total outstanding public debt is close to $39 trillion.
According to the US Treasury Debt of the Penny data set, the total public debt outstanding He stands Worth a staggering $38.969 trillion as of April 7, 2026.
The national debt has continued to rise as the federal government runs large deficits and finances spending through additional borrowing. Debt to the penny is a daily measure of the total outstanding public debt and includes both debt held by public holdings and intergovernmental holdings.
Recently interview With NPR, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned that the rising debt burden could eventually lead to broader market pressures, noting that market volatility tends to rise once the Federal Reserve prints a lot of money.
“I don’t think anyone can predict (when) it will become a real problem — in six months or six years, I don’t know. I know it will become a problem and the way it will show up is because of volatile market prices — bond vigilantes, people who don’t want to buy U.S. Treasuries.”
(The US) will still be the best economy but there will be (those) who don’t want to own US Treasuries, so we have to deal with it sooner rather than later and maybe if it’s done that way, it will be a kind of crisis management.
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