The U.S. national debt is set to cross $40 trillion, a mark it was expected to surpass only after Labor Day. The milestone has come faster than any previous trillion-dollar jump in the United States’ history.
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US debt obligations have hit $39.95 trillion, just $50 billion away from the $40 trillion threshold.Treasury data show $6.5 billion in daily borrowing, putting the debt total at $50 trillion by July 2029.Senator Cynthia Lummis has maintained her BITCOIN Act, targeting 1 million BTC, could cut debt by up to 50%.The pace of America’s debt accumulation has become a story unto itself. The country’s first trillion dollars of debt took 192 years to accumulate, arriving in 1981. The next trillion came faster each time, i.e. five years to go from $5 trillion to $10 trillion by 2008, then just five years to climb from $20 trillion in 2017 to $30 trillion in 2022.
Not everyone agrees the trade is working as advertised given that bitcoin and gold have both spent stretches of 2026 falling even as the debt notched record after record, a reminder that the debasement thesis operates on a longer timeline than any single month’s price action.
