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Bookmark or Share- National Debt – Just Facts* Combining the figures above with the national debt and subtracting the value of federal assets, the federal government had about $88.9 trillion ($88,911,000,000,000) in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations at the close of its 2017 fiscal year.
- U.S. National Debt Clock : Real TimeUS National Debt Clock : Real Time U.S. National Debt Clock
- National Debt - Front pageGross federal debt is made up of public debt securities and a small amount of securities issued by government agencies. Debt held by the public is the most meaningful of these concepts and measures the cumulative amount outstanding that the government has borrowed to finance deficits.
- Government debt - WikipediaGovernment debt (also known as public interest, public debt, national debt and sovereign debt) is the debt owed by a government. By contrast, the annual "government deficit" refers to the difference between government receipts and spending in a single year.Government debt can be categorized as internal debt (owed to lenders within the country) and external debt (owed to foreign lenders).
- United States National DebtThe national debt - aka the federal debt - is the total of all the past years' budget deficits, minus what the government has paid off with budget surpluses. Deficits are common: in the last half century, the federal government has run a deficit in 45 out of 50 years.
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