56 cents of every dollar you paid in income tax in March went to cover interest on the debt. Not in paying down the debt....just keeping up with the interest on the debt.
And this gets mathematically worse by the month, which also means culturally worse: a threat to the national security. Look at the steep rate of climb in this chart:
American foreign policy must consider not only the condition of allied nations today but also the direction or trajectory in which they are moving. European leadership restricting freedom of speech and banning entry to peaceful activists cannot be dismissed as purely domestic when it affects American citizens and raises questions about the values on which the transatlantic alliance rests.
Kristin Ziccarelli
“I write books to educate myself"
Paul Johnson (1928–2023), the British historian and author, wrote more than 50 books over his lifetime.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.297297/gov.uscourts.dcd.297297.1.0.pdf
Mishandling national defense information. Very serious.