🚨 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀’𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐁𝐓 𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐑𝐔𝐏𝐓𝐂𝐘 𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐏.

U.S. national debt has now crossed $38 trillion.
It has increased by more than $2.3 trillion in just the last 12 months, growing at roughly $6.4 billion per day. But the bigger problem is not the total debt.
It’s the interest burden attached to it.
The U.S. government is now paying close to $1 trillion per year just in interest payments.
In several recent fiscal periods, interest spending has been higher than U.S. defense spending.
So a large portion of taxpayer money is no longer funding infrastructure, defense, or public services.
It is going toward servicing past borrowing.
And because the U.S. is still running large deficits, new debt issuance is being used to fund both ongoing spending and part of these interest costs.
This is what economists refer to as a debt spiral:
Debt grows → interest rises → more borrowing is needed → debt grows again.
At the same time, average interest rates on U.S. government debt have more than doubled over the last few years.
So even if spending stopped rising, interest costs would still keep climbing.
This creates a structural pressure point inside the federal budget.
Over the next decade, projections show interest payments becoming one of the largest government expenses, rivaling Social Security and Medicare.
When countries reach this phase historically, they rarely solve it through spending cuts alone.
Instead, the adjustment usually comes through monetary expansion, currency debasement, or sustained inflation.
Not because it’s ideal, but because it reduces the real value of debt over time.
This is why the debt conversation is no longer theoretical.
It is now directly tied to inflation risk, currency purchasing power, and long term financial stability.
The numbers are no longer small enough to ignore.
And the trajectory is still pointing higher.