This interest payment graph went vertical after the 2020 election.

Federal government current expenditures: Interest payments
Federal government current expenditures: Interest payments

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".happy_wink-5