US debt is now $37tn - should we be worried?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As Donald Trump cheered the passage of his self-styled, and officially named, Big Beautiful Budget Bill through Congress this week, long-sown seeds of doubt about the scale and sustainability of US borrowing from the rest of the world sprouted anew.

Trump's tax-cutting budget bill is expected to add at least $3 trillion (£2.2 trillion) to the US's already eye-watering $37tn (£27tn) debt pile. There is no shortage of critics of the plan, not least Trump's former ally Elon Musk, who has called it a "disgusting abomination".

The growing debt pile leaves some to wonder whether there is a limit to how much the rest of the world will lend Uncle Sam.

Those doubts have been showing up recently in the weaker value of the dollar and the higher interest rate investors are demanding to lend money to America.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-debt-now-37trn-worried-212745718.html

Roughly one third of that was incurred under Donald Trump.

[MIGuy]

1. Tomorrow's headache

All I hear makes me think the economy will not grow, and probably shrink in the next #?? years. So that $37 Trillion is going to blow up as a percentage of GNP. Expect increasing inflation to cover this increasing cost of interest. Not a good place to be.

[WarGamer]

2. We see this question in the news frequently... every few years it seems.

[pecosbob]

3. They'll begin to care when the bond market goes south.