{"id":644359,"date":"2026-08-17T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=839995"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:05:09","slug":"us-debt-nears-40-trillion-in-5-months-as-bitcoins-case-gets-louder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/us-debt-nears-40-trillion-in-5-months-as-bitcoins-case-gets-louder\/","title":{"rendered":"US Debt Nears $40 Trillion in 5 Months as Bitcoin\u2019s Case Gets Louder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/us-national-debt-nears-40-trillion-in-record-5-months2_nwmk-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"US rising debt\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The U.S. national debt is set to cross $40 trillion, a mark it was expected to surpass only after Labor Day. The milestone has come faster than any previous trillion-dollar jump in the United States&#8217; history. The Fastest Trillion in US History The pace of America&#8217;s debt accumulation has become a story unto itself. The [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. national debt is set to cross $40 trillion, a mark it was expected to surpass only after Labor Day. The milestone has come faster than any previous trillion-dollar jump in the United States&#8217; history. The Fastest Trillion in US History The pace of America&#8217;s debt accumulation has become a story unto itself. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-644359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}