The new budget forecasts predicted that the United States will record a $1.9 trillion budget deficit this fiscal year and that annual deficits over the next decade will total $21.1 trillion. That will be piled on to a national debt that currently exceeds $36 trillion.

Extending the tax law that’s set to expire would add $4.6 trillion to the national debt — so some GOP lawmakers want to change the rules.

Just days before Donald Trump returns to power, some of his Republican allies in the U.S. Congress are warning that the president-elect's aggressive tax-cut agenda could fall victim to signs of worry in the bond market.

The U.S. national debt is projected to surge by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts being championed by President-elect Donald Trump