#nationaldebt

Original post on mindly.social (mindly.social)

Once upon a time, it was an absolute political and economical scandal when the US government ran up an annual deficit of a trillion dollars. [1] Under Trump's tax cuts for the rich and bloated spending for his pet projects and well-connected contractors, the USA just ran up a $432 billion […]

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“… Trump has long expressed a preference for steam catapults over their electromagnetic replacements. In a 2017 interview with Time, he criticized the newer technology …”

US national debt grew $21.3B overnight to $39.94 trillion 🇺🇸 As of 2026-08-13 🇺🇸 𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭: $𝟑𝟗.𝟗𝟑𝟓𝐓 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜: $𝟑𝟐.𝟐𝟎𝟏𝐓 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐯: $𝟕.𝟕𝟑𝟒𝐓 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📈 Day-over-day: +$21.29B (+0.0533%) vs 2026-08-12 Source: US Treasury

Weekly US Fiscal Recap - Friday, Aug 14 (usfiscalclock.com)

📅 Weekly recap — Aug 10 🔴 Debt: +$34.0B 💸 Interest: +$23.90B 📉 Deficit: +$36.25B 👥 Debt/taxpayer: $367,036 #NationalDebt #WeeklyRecap usfiscalclock.com/s/2026-08-14

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Original post on mastodon.social (mastodon.social)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/aug/14/us-long-term-borrowing-25-year-high-trump-aviva-eurozone-economy-stock-markets-live-news-updates. "The #fiscal pressures on the #US #Government have risen after it paid the highest #borrowing #costs to sell long-term #bonds in a quarter of a […]