🇺🇸 **Trillion-Dollar Interest Payments Are the New Norm**
"_As the national debt continues to climb toward record levels – totaling 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 – interest on the national debt has also risen significantly. Just five years ago, in FY 2020, net interest totaled $345 billion; in FY 2025, it totaled $970 billion – nearly three times as large._"
🔗 https://www.crfb.org/blogs/trillion-dollar-interest-payments-are-new-norm.