Over the past 75 years, the net interest paid by the federal government on our national debt has ballooned from $889 million in 1940 to an estimated $229.2 billion in 2015.

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The federal government estimates that it has paid billions of dollars less in interest on the national debt in the 2020 fiscal ... we’ve replicated his marked-up chart from the CBO report ...

Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace ...

The U.S. government’s debt is not a cause for concern, as it is self-funded and the Federal Reserve can always step in to ...

The total national debt is more than $22 trillion. An unpaid for budget deal could add at least another $2 trillion. Congress should debate the debt limit and new spending thoroughly and separately.

national debt tracker: american taxpayers (you) are now on the hook for $34,534,845,450,747.16 For years, the U.S. was able to borrow cheaply, thanks to historically low interest rates.

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"In the next two years, we'll spend more on interest on our national debt than we do on the national defense," Pence told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in a March 30 interview.

During a March 30 interview on CNN, former Vice President Mike Pence said: "In the next two years, we'll spend more on interest on our national debt than we do on the national defense." ...

In turn, net interest payments on the national debt skyrocketed by 42% to $622 billion. That’s more than the federal government spent on either Medicare or the Defense Department.

According to the USDebtClock.org, the national debt is rapidly closing in on $20 trillion, which works out to more than $61,300 for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. and nearly $167,000 for ...