[skeeter]

Its hard to believe they thought they could get away with this.

It must've been an oversight.

And forgetting to add in the interest payments is quite an oversight.

[gov_bean_ counter]

During the Clinton Era this would have been called a “
Bureaucratic Snafu”.

[griswold3]

Considering the interest payments for Jan 11 was $21.1B or 7.6% of outlays.
Total Debt for Jan 11 was $52.084B

http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/mts0111.pdf