{"id":4723,"date":"2023-11-07T20:18:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2023-11-07T20:18:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:18:23","slug":"us-debt-payments-soar-to-1-trillion-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4723","title":{"rendered":"US debt payments soar to $1 trillion a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">At the end of last month, estimated annual interest payments on the US national debt surpassed $1 trillion, Bloomberg analysis shows.<\/p>\n<p>That amount has doubled over the past 19 months and represents 15.9% of the entire federal budget for fiscal year 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The figures are calculated using US Treasury data which state the government\u2019s monthly outstanding debt balances and the average interest it pays.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of last month, estimated annual interest payments on the US national debt surpassed $1 trillion, Bloomberg analysis shows. That amount has doubled over the past 19 months and represents 15.9% of the entire federal budget for fiscal year 2022. The figures are calculated using US Treasury data which state the government\u2019s monthly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}