Fiscal News: National Debt Interest

With our national debt reaching almost $9.4 trillion, the federal budget's amount to pay the interest on that debt has passed $400 billion.

The interest expense paid on the National Debt is the third largest expense in the federal budget, right after Defense and Health and Human Services, HUD, and Agriculture.

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