What Are Interest Costs on the National Debt?
Interest costs are on track to become the largest category of spending in the federal budget.
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Interest costs are on track to become the largest category of spending in the federal budget.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/what-are-interest-costs-on-the-national-debt
“The national debt is already $34 trillion, but as it grows over the next three decades, we’ll spend more than double that on interest alone,” said Michael A. Peterson.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2024/03/fci-press-release
The end of 2023 marks another year that the country has failed to improve its daunting fiscal outlook.
Sequestration is a budget procedure used by lawmakers to cancel or limit funding in order to meet budget goals.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/budget-basics-what-is-sequestration
A new poll released today commissioned by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation finds that 83% of voters believe the debt should be a high priority in the President’s speech.
“We need our leaders to rise to the urgency of the moment, but legislative gridlock continues to prevent progress on even the basics of budgeting," said Michael A. Peterson.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2024/03/peterson-foundation-statement-on-presidents-budget
At $19 trillion and growing, the national debt is threatening to harm our economy. In just over a decade, interest on the debt will become our third largest federal program — crowding out investments in critical programs like education, infrastructure, and R&D. But there's still time to secure our future.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s 2012 Fiscal Summit brought together leaders from government, policy, academia, and the media to address our long-term fiscal challenges, explore the potential for progress and reinforce the importance of building bipartisan consensus on solutions.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/fiscal-summit/2012-fiscal-summit-americas-case-for-action
The Treasury projects that debt as a percentage of GDP will grow to more than five times the size of the U.S. economy in the next 75 years.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2024/03/delaying-fiscal-reform-is-costly-annual-treasury-report-warns