Federal Debt Tops $27 Trillion for First Time
By Terence P. Jeffrey | October 2, 2020 | 4:07pm ED
(CNSNews.com) - The debt of the federal government topped $27 trillion for the first time on Thursday, October 1, when it climbed from an opening balance of $26,945,391,194,615.15 to a closing balance of $27,026,921,935,432.41, according to data published by the U.S. Treasury Department. https://www.cnsnews.com/article/wash...ion-first-time
The federal debt had topped $25 trillion for the first time on May 5, 2020.
It then climbed another trillion dollars in just 35 days, topping $26 trillion for the first time on June 9.
Only 114 days elapsed from when the debt topped the $26-trillion threshold on June 9 to yesterday, when it topped $27 trillion for the first time.
The chart below shows the date on which the federal debt surpassed each trillion-dollar threshold from $5 trillion to $27 trillion:
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