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Interest On U.S. Debt Tops $1 Trillion For The First Time
Breitbart ^ | 09/12/2024 | John Carney

Posted on 09/13/2024 5:04:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The interest burden of the public debt of the U.S. government has topped $1 trillion already this year, the first time interest costs have crossed the trillion dollar threshold.

In the first 11 months of the fiscal year, interest payments totaled $1.05 trillion, up 30 percent from a year ago, the Treasury Department said Thursday. This is the first time interest payments have ever climbed about $1 trillion. Despite claims by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to have addressed the U.S. budget deficit, the deficit is up 24 percent in the first 11 months of this fiscal year compared with the previous period, according to data released Thursday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenharris; bidenharrisfault; debt; first; interest; nationaldebt; trillion

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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a trillion dollars every 100 days?
1 posted on 09/13/2024 5:04:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Everett Dirksen says, “WHAT?!!”


2 posted on 09/13/2024 5:14:55 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (This world is driven by envy, not greed.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

A trillion here, a trillion there...


3 posted on 09/13/2024 5:15:55 PM PDT by OKSooner (Domestic animals for Trump.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Quick! We can’t have this headline.

Cut interest rates!


4 posted on 09/13/2024 5:18:32 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t worry, everything will be just fine, we won’t run out of money. I promise they will print more...


5 posted on 09/13/2024 5:20:42 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is more than just up to our necks in doo doo. We’re now head first knee deep into into it!


6 posted on 09/13/2024 5:31:13 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey America! You know all that money you were so proud about Joe Pedo and Kambala spending like drunken pirates?


7 posted on 09/13/2024 5:35:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (abc ! America's lower case far-left network.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not a problem..I’ve got it. I’ll write a check tomorrow and add a little more for residual bills not yet paid. My check is as good as the US Governments.


8 posted on 09/13/2024 6:05:54 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

lets mint a trillion dollar coin to pay for the interest.


9 posted on 09/13/2024 6:34:43 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: eyeamok
This event was being predicted back in the 80's, so congratulations to the U.S. Congress on this dubious achievement.
10 posted on 09/13/2024 6:40:10 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hello Houston, we have a problem….our debt is 135 percent of our GDP, our enemy Russia’s debt to GDP is 17 percent, and the Brics have announced an alternate payment system backed by Gold…..


11 posted on 09/13/2024 7:30:01 PM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

….and we have no Gold left….


12 posted on 09/13/2024 7:30:57 PM PDT by delta7
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The deficit is increasing one trillion every 100 days.

This is the interest on the total debt.

The reason this house of cards hasn’t collapsed already is that no one has a clue what to do if it does. There is no plan B, no fallback. Truly the emperor (i.e. the dollar) has no clothes.


13 posted on 09/13/2024 7:34:49 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Thanks for the info


14 posted on 09/13/2024 7:38:18 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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