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14 hours ago

Interest on the $38.8 trillion national debt has tripled since 2020 and it already costs taxpayers more than defense and Medicaid | Fortune

U.S. interest payments on national debt reached $970 billion annually in 2025, nearly tripling since 2020 and exceeding defense and Medicaid spending, with projections to double again by 2036.
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3 days ago

How Broken Is the Media? Just Look at the Coverage of Trump's Exploding Debt Crisis

In mid-February, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a shocking report calculating that at the current rate of increase, the national debt is set to hit $64 trillion by 2036. Sixty-four trillion dollars is such an eye-popping number—double the national debt in 2023 and triple where it stood in 2018—that it would mean the public would owe over 120% of overall GDP, crushing the previous record of 106% in 1946.
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