This interest payment graph went vertical after the 2020 election.
Federal government current expenditures: Interest payments
Federal government current expenditures: Interest payments
![](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?width=880&height=440&id=A091RC1Q027SBEA)
It shows "updated July 27th" but the actual data (upper right blue button) was last updated on April 1st. There's no July update and I suspect the Oct update won't appear in two weeks, either. We can extrapolate a $27 billion increase per month from the past year, bringing today's total to $1.1 trillion.
"Things fall apart".
![](https://broward.ghost.io/content/images/2023/09/interest_update_chart.jpg)
![](https://broward.ghost.io/content/images/2023/09/interest_update_xls.jpg)
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