Bill’s Commentary:
“$22 Billion per week just to pay interest alone?”
The U.S. government is spending $88 billion a month in interest on national debt—equal to spending on defense and education combined
The problem with an increasing debt burden is that it costs more to maintain it: This is precisely the issue with which the U.S. Treasury is wrangling at present. As total U.S. national debt ticks over $39 trillion, the interest payments on that value are eye-watering: $529 billion for the first six months of the current fiscal year.
A new budget update from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released yesterday highlights that the government—according to preliminary estimates—paid out the near $530 billion between October 2025, when the fiscal year starts, and March 2026. This equates to more than $88 billion in interest payments a month, or more than $22 billion a week.
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I see the value of US Treasury Bonds held by the Federal Reserve Bank is about 3,600,000,000,000 as of last Wednesday. That’s a little less than 10% of US government debt. So the Fed is earning something like $8 Billion per month? Did the Fed “buy” those Bonds by creating an accounting entry in their (unaudited) books?
Nice gig for the special parasite folks among us..
Just wondering… Dave Jonathan
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