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The US owes $40 trillion now.

The US owes $40 trillion now.

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August 20th, 2026

The US owes $40 trillion now.

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The U.S. national debt passed $40 trillion on Wednesday.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์ฑ„๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ์— 40์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This is a new record.

์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ๋ก์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The debt hit $39 trillion in March.

๋ถ€์ฑ„๋Š” 3์›”์— 39์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It hit $38 trillion in October.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ 10์›”์— 38์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

So it grew very fast.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„์ฃผ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The debt shows different priorities.

๋นš์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The government spends on defense.

์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ์— ๋ˆ์„ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It also wants lower costs for gas and groceries.

์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๊ฐ’๊ณผ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ๊ฐ’์„ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

A White House spokesman said the administration wants to cut waste.

๋ฐฑ์•…๊ด€ ๋Œ€๋ณ€์ธ์€ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋‚ญ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It also wants to boost growth.

ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Experts say the debt raises borrowing costs.

์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๋นš์ด ๋นŒ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Mortgages and cars cost more.

์ฃผํƒ ๋Œ€์ถœ๊ณผ ์ž๋™์ฐจ๋Š” ๋” ๋น„์Œ‰๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It can also lower wages.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ž„๊ธˆ์„ ๋‚ฎ์ถœ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Goods can become more expensive.

๋ฌผ๊ฑด์€ ๋” ๋น„์‹ธ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The debt grew under many presidents.

๋นš์€ ๋งŽ์€ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ์ปค์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The government borrowed a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic.

์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜19 ๋™์•ˆ ๋งŽ์ด ๋นŒ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This happened under Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์™€ ์กฐ ๋ฐ”์ด๋“  ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ์ผ์–ด๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Trump signed a tax cut law last year.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„์— ์„ธ๊ธˆ์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๋ฒ•์— ์„œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Then the government approved more spending.

๊ทธ๋•Œ ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ˆ์„ ์“ฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

One think tank leader said lawmakers should find a better path.

ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ์˜ ์ง€๋„์ž๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ธธ์„ ์ฐพ์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Budget advocates warn of hard choices ahead.

์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ์ง€์ง€์ž๋“ค์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์„ ํƒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

One official said the fiscal path is not sustainable.

ํ•œ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ˆ์„ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It could become a crisis.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The U.S. has a debt limit of $41.1 trillion.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ 41.1์กฐ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋นŒ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Analysts say it will reach that limit in 2027.

๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ 2027๋…„์— ๊ทธ ํ•œ๋„์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This will happen between late winter and mid-summer.

์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋Šฆ์€ ๊ฒจ์šธ๊ณผ ํ•œ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์ผ์–ด๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The U.S. fiscal position is the worst among rich countries.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ˆ ์ƒํƒœ๋Š” ๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผ๋“ค ์ค‘์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‚˜์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The OECD says this.

OECD๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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