Party leaders warn that will result in a huge increase in the national debt.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

You take total household debt and total federal debt and combine them, and you got a kind of national indebtedness 168% that's about 168 percent of GDP.

将美国所有家庭债务总额,加上联邦政府债务总额，得出整个美国的债务状况,整个债务量竟是GDP的。

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Investor sentiment continues to sour over concerns that European countries are not doing enough to tackle their national debt.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

The treasury secretary did not dispute Republican contentions that mounting federal deficits are creating an unsustainable level of national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Geithner said one key to a sustained economic recovery will be to reduce U.S.federal deficits and stop adding to America's national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who highlighted another long-term risk to America's economic health: its skyrocketing national debt.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

"It will double the national debt in five years and triple the national debt in 10 years.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

During the next decade, the White House estimates America's national debt will grow by $9 trillion.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

"$787 billion added to our national debt and an annual deficit approaching $2 trillion.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Republicans stood united in opposition to the legislation, claiming it would increase the national debt, and put the government in firm control of the health care system.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

All of this talk comes in the face of mounting national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Tea Party sympathizers oppose government interference in health care and in other areas of the economy, and they fear the Democratic-led Congress is spending too much and increasing the national debt.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

That has led to charges by Republicans the economic recovery is an illusion, funded by inefficient government spending that has weakened America's long-term economic position by vastly expanding the national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

But the White House and the Congressional Budget Office say that America's national debt will continue to expand for years to come, even assuming that the U.S.economy will begin to recover at the end of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

But selling the proposed budget on Capitol Hill became harder after Friday's report from the Congressional Budget Office, which projects significantly higher budget deficits than the administration estimates over the next decade, adding trillions of dollars to the national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Even if U.S.economic output expands in 2010 and more Americans head back to work, both critics and supporters of the president say the nation faces a more serious challenge to future economic viability: a rapidly growing deficit and a national debt estimated at more than $12 trillion.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

The European Central Bank and national central banks are barred from aiding members by purchasing their debt.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

"So,you pile up all this Democrat spending, all their borrowing,all their debt, you add it to their government takeover of health care, their 'cap and trade' national energy tax and their continued bailouts.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06