- Three things to know about the $40 trillion federal debt NPR
- ‘Starve the beast’? The $40tn cost of Republicans’ false promises to cut spending The Guardian
- U.S. government debt passes $40 trillion, more than doubling in a decade CNBC
- U.S. Debt Soars and Scott Bessent Steps in as America’s Bond Trader in Chief WSJ
- How the US government pushed the national debt to $40 trillion in less than a generation Yahoo Finance