U.S. Treasury will have to borrow $2 trillion this year just to continue functioning—more than $166 billion every month
- Posted on May 7, 2026
- By Fortune
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U.S. Treasury will have to borrow $2 trillion this year just to continue functioning—more than $166 billion every month
"Markets will only tolerate our unsustainable borrowing for so long; the risk of a fiscal crisis gets higher as the days pass. We need deficit reduction urgently."
