Day October 28, 2026

Budget, Personal Loans

Federal Debt Crosses $40.5 Trillion After a $65 Billion One Day Jump

Wide exterior view of the neoclassical United States Treasury building in Washington DC photographed from across the street on an overcast late autumn morning with tall fluted stone columns running the length of the colonnade, bare maple branches framing the left edge, wet dark pavement in the foreground and a muted grey blue sky overhead

Treasury's Debt to the Penny series recorded $40,528,358,939,415.85 on October 26, 2026, the first reading above $40.5 trillion, after a $65.21 billion one day rise.

Shelly Warding
October 28, 2026