This is pure Ponzi — They borrow more every month just to pay the old debt and interest.

No way to repay 40 trillion without destroying the dollar through inflation. Young people are screwed. Buy gold and hard assets now because the bill is coming due fast.

  • First 9 months of FY2026 deficit hit nearly 1.4 trillion dollars.
  • That beats the 1.3 trillion deficit from the same period last year.
  • Borrowing pace means more debt added in 9 months than all of 2025 in some comparisons.
  • National debt now stands at 39.4 trillion dollars.
  • Interest payments reached 857 billion dollars so far this year.
  • Weekly interest cost runs about 24 billion dollars.
  • Interest now exceeds combined spending on Defense plus several other big agencies.

U.S. Treasury has borrowed $155 billion every month of this fiscal year—and is now paying $24 billion a week in interest on its debts

Despite concerns from debt hawks, the U.S. government is continuing to borrow at pace: For the fiscal year of 2026 so far, the federal deficit has totaled just under $1.4 trillion.

The first nine months of this fiscal year (beginning in October) have now surpassed the borrowing levels of 2025, when deficits totaled just over $1.3 trillion for the same period.

At the time of writing, the total U.S. national debt sits at $39.4 trillion, accumulated under administrations led by both Republicans and Democrats.

U.S. national debt is quickly approaching $40 trillion. At current pace it will cross this landmark level as soon as September 2026. This news comes as blow to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's aim to lower interest rates as the Treasury needs to roll over $9T worth of U.S debt in 2026.
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