The fiscal year 2007 increase in the national debt was $501 billion ... so the total is $8.6 trillion. The spending pace Congress is on will produce a national debt of around $36.5 trillion by Dec. 31 ...
As a retired history teacher and wrestling coach on the Hi-Line, I decided to dig into the barrage of conflicting political ads from Jon Tester and Tim Sheehy and try to make heads or tails of them.