May 19, 2026
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GOVERNMENT & POWER • GOVERNMENT DEBT & SPENDING
Every month, before your government pays a soldier, repaves a road, or mails a Social Security check, it sends $88 billion to its creditors. That’s not a line item someone voted for — it’s the cost of 25 years of borrowing, compounding at higher and higher rates. The national debt crossed $39 trillion this year. The interest tab is running 6.1% above last year’s pace. You’re not watching a slow leak… you’re watching a drain that keeps getting wider.
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Every month, more money leaves the U.S. Treasury in interest payments than it spends on its entire military.
