The U.S. national debt has now increased by about $571.28 billion this year, as Treasury Department data shows the total outstanding national debt is approaching $39 trillion.
According to the US Treasury Department’s Debt to the Penny dataset: the total outstanding national debt stands at a whopping $38.969 trillion on April 7, 2026.
The national debt has continued to rise as the federal government runs large deficits and finances spending with additional borrowing. Debt to the Penny is the daily measure of total outstanding government debt and includes both public and intragovernmental holdings debt.
In a recent one interview Joining NPR, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, warned that the growing debt burden could eventually lead to broader market stress, noting that market volatility tends to increase once the Federal Reserve prints too much money.
“I don’t think anyone can predict that [when] it’s going to be a real problem – in six months, six years, I don’t know. I do know it’s going to be a problem, and the way it’s going to manifest itself is that volatile market rates are going up – the bond citizens, the people who don’t want to buy United States Treasury bonds.
[The US] will still be the best economy, but it will be there [those] We don’t want to own US government bonds, so we have to deal with them sooner or later. If it happens that way, maybe it will be a kind of crisis management.”
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