🇺🇸💣 U.S. Treasury debt has officially surpassed the $30 trillion mark!
On December 5, the scale of U.S. sovereign debt stood at a historic milestone for the first time: 📌 Treasury bills + medium-term bonds + long-term bonds 👉 Total: $30.2 trillion 👉 Compared to 2018, it has doubled And this is just the "on-the-books debt." As of November, total U.S. national debt has soared to $38.4 trillion, including a pile of "internal liabilities" like Social Security funds and savings bonds, In the truest sense— An era where the entire nation bears debt. ——— Even more explosive: 💰 Fiscal Year 2025 budget deficit: about $1.78 trillion 💥 But just the annual interest payments on the debt: As much as $1.2 trillion! What does this mean? 👉 The current situation in the U.S. is: Interest = Deficit = A rigid spending black hole ——— One sentence from a Citi rates strategist cut straight to the core 👇
"The biggest challenge is interest payments. Even if tariffs collect $300–400 billion a year, It’s nowhere near enough to pay the current interest. We're like being stuck in quicksand, Tariffs might slow our sinking a bit, But we're still sinking."
——— ✅ To put it in plain language: 👉 New borrowing is used to pay off old debt, 👉 The interest keeps compounding, 👉 Any "patchwork income" Cannot fix this structural hole. 💣 This is not a short-term fiscal issue, It's a signal that a long-term debt system is spiraling out of control. Who do you think will end up footing the bill for all this?
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🇺🇸💣 U.S. Treasury debt has officially surpassed the $30 trillion mark!
On December 5, the scale of U.S. sovereign debt stood at a historic milestone for the first time:
📌 Treasury bills + medium-term bonds + long-term bonds
👉 Total: $30.2 trillion
👉 Compared to 2018, it has doubled
And this is just the "on-the-books debt."
As of November, total U.S. national debt has soared to $38.4 trillion,
including a pile of "internal liabilities" like Social Security funds and savings bonds,
In the truest sense—
An era where the entire nation bears debt.
———
Even more explosive:
💰 Fiscal Year 2025 budget deficit: about $1.78 trillion
💥 But just the annual interest payments on the debt:
As much as $1.2 trillion!
What does this mean?
👉 The current situation in the U.S. is:
Interest = Deficit = A rigid spending black hole
———
One sentence from a Citi rates strategist cut straight to the core 👇
"The biggest challenge is interest payments.
Even if tariffs collect $300–400 billion a year,
It’s nowhere near enough to pay the current interest.
We're like being stuck in quicksand,
Tariffs might slow our sinking a bit,
But we're still sinking."
———
✅ To put it in plain language:
👉 New borrowing is used to pay off old debt,
👉 The interest keeps compounding,
👉 Any "patchwork income"
Cannot fix this structural hole.
💣 This is not a short-term fiscal issue,
It's a signal that a long-term debt system is spiraling out of control.
Who do you think will end up footing the bill for all this?