WasteOfTheDay: US Spent $562.4B on Interest Payments in '21

According to the United States Treasury, the United States spent $52.4 billion in Fiscal Year 2021 on interest payments alone. This money isn’t going towards paying off our current debt obligations, which currently stand at over $29 trillion, this just covers the cost of borrowing the money.

In the last two fiscal years, the U.S. spent nearly $1.1 trillion to pay interest on our national debt.

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