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Posted on 02/18/2026 6:01:18 AM PST by bigdaddy45
The United States is rapidly accelerating toward a definitive tipping point in its financial history, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) wrote in response to the latest 10-year outlook from the Congressional Budget Office. The nonpartisan budget watchdog issued a stark assessment: The current trajectory of borrowing, which is running at double the 50-year historical average, is simply mathematically unsustainable.
The CRFB cautioned that without immediate legislative intervention, the federal government faces a future defined by exploding interest costs, insolvent trust funds, and a national debt burden that will shatter post–World War II records within four years.
It amounts to a report card for the Trump administration’s first year back in office—potentially its last truly impactful year of President Donald Trump’s term, if midterm elections swing either or both of the House and Senate to Democrats. The CBO updated its projections to account for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), Trump’s tariff regime, changes in immigration, and other factors. “With debt approaching record levels, interest costs exploding, trust funds approaching insolvency, and deficits expected to remain more than twice as large as the oft-discussed 3% of GDP target,” the CRFB argued, “lawmakers should come together to enact significant deficit reduction.”
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Note the3% GDP growth figure used in their projections, vs what actually growth develops over Trump’s term…
This is what the Demonicrats and RINOcrats have been pushing for decades!
When the collapse hits, they will shred the Constitution and become the dictatorial kakistocracy, which they are now displaying their characteristics.
Now MSN cares about the debt…
Yep, Trump is in office, debt is a problem, but the same CFRB says we just need to print more money and have more debt when a democrat is in office.
Don’t get me wrong, the debt is destroying us but I could not care less what the CFRB has to say about it because it is anything but nonpartisan.
$56T debt
AI performing work better than humans
Big percentage of humans having nothing useful to contribute to the national economy.
Crypto-currency backed by nothing serving as a medium of exchange.
I’m pretty sure that the concept of “money” is going out the window real soon. Nothing traditional about the economy seems to mean anything now. We’re walking into a major transition point in our civilization.
It’s starting to appear that the knuckledraggers on the far left were wrong again. EVEN THE UNITED STATES DOESN’T HAVE THE MONEY TO PROP UP THE LEFT’S SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST UTOPIA EITHER. Socialism is just a wet dream for the sick, lame, lazy and retarded.
You are wrong. They’ve been warning about debts and deficits for years.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/what-we-hope-see-presidents-fy-2023-budget
Agree they have a trail of flames and ashes to prove their kakistocracy dream world.
Who’da thunk it?
Starting in 2009, Greece faced a massive debt crisis, with debt exceeding 180% of its GDP by 2014, totaling roughly €320-350 billion. The country narrowly avoided default via multiple international bailouts (2010–2018), which imposed strict austerity, deep spending cuts, and structural reforms. The crisis caused a ~25% GDP collapse and high unemployment.
The Crisis Trigger: In 2009, it was revealed that previous governments under-reported debt levels; the 2009 deficit was over double the initial forecast.
Greece received over €300 billion in loans from the EU and IMF, contingent on severe measures, including pension cuts, tax increases, and public sector wage reductions.
The crisis officially lasted from 2009 to 2018, changing Greece’s economic structure permanently.
This could well be in our future.
The path of least resistance would be to put more money in circulation , in order to keep current with interest payments on the national debt. And also maintain social security payments at present levels , into the decade of the 2030s and 2040s.
And you got to wonder how much of that debt was pissed away as fraud...
Ya, I think my head was more on the CBO reports.
Can’t imagine a day gone by without ranting about the uniparty/GOPe, Congress who ads $6 billion a day of indebtedness, and the national debt.
Guess I don’t have to today LOL.
Right now the debt is 38 trillion. To get to 54 trillion, trump is the sole person who can stop it by not signing crap bills. Will he stop?
DOGE could reduce fraud, waste & abuse by $ Trillions per year, except the Democrats and RINOs are in on the steal.
“Now MSN cares about the debt…”
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And suddenly they care about affordability.
Now MSN cares about the debt…
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Which is to say they don’t really care. This is another issue that they act concerned about when a Republican is in office in order to see if it sticks with the public.
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