{"id":15262707,"date":"2026-08-20T17:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-u-s-debt-tops-a-record-shattering-40-trillion-yes-with-a-t\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:33:24","slug":"the-u-s-debt-tops-a-record-shattering-40-trillion-yes-with-a-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/the-u-s-debt-tops-a-record-shattering-40-trillion-yes-with-a-t\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. debt tops a record-shattering $40 trillion. Yes, with a T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal debt reached $40 trillion as the government adds red ink at a rapid rate. That&#8217;s leading nervous investors to demand higher interest rates \u2014 pushing up borrowing costs for everyone else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/08\/19\/nx-s1-5937552\/the-u-s-debt-tops-a-record-shattering-40-trillion-yes-with-a-t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News &#8211; International &#8211; USA &#8211; NPR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal debt reached $40 trillion as the government adds red ink at a rapid rate. That&#8217;s leading nervous investors to demand higher interest rates \u2014 pushing up borrowing costs for everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15262709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15262707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15262707-jpeg.jpg",300,300,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/usa\/\" rel=\"category tag\">USA<\/a>","tag_info":"USA","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15262707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15262708,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262707\/revisions\/15262708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15262709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15262707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15262707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15262707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}