{"id":5076,"date":"2024-05-28T04:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T02:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2024-05-28T04:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T02:40:16","slug":"the-u-s-debt-continues-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=5076","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Debt Continues to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In April, the U.S. national debt reached a new record of $34.6 trillion. Over just four years, the total debt has increased by 47%, or $11 trillion. As a result, each U.S. taxpayer now bears $267,000 in federal debt.<\/p>\n<p>If current trends continue, the U.S. debt could double in just eight years, rising from $20 trillion in 2017 to $40 trillion by 2025. If the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged, the cost of servicing this debt could reach $1.6 trillion by the end of the year.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the U.S. national debt reached a new record of $34.6 trillion. Over just four years, the total debt has increased by 47%, or $11 trillion. As a result, each U.S. taxpayer now bears $267,000 in federal debt. If current trends continue, the U.S. debt could double in just eight years, rising from $20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5076","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\/5076","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=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}