Defusing Nation’s Ticking Debt Bomb Faces Tough Road in Swamp

Defusing Nation's Ticking Debt Bomb Faces Tough Road in Swamp

Defusing Nation’s Ticking Debt Bomb Faces Tough Road in Swamp

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), annual net interest spending on the projected national debt which already costs more than our national defense budget — up 153% since Joe Biden first took office — will grow more than 36% higher within a decade.

U.S. debt held by the public (DHBP) — money that government owes to itself expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) — reached $29 trillion in 2024, 99% of GDP, $2 trillion more than the 97% at the end of 2023.

This unsustainable deadly trend is on track to reach 116% of GDP in 2034, and upward to 166% of GDP by mid-century (2054).

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