>The U.S. Treasury’s borrowing showed no signs of slowing as the U.S. headed deeper into fiscal year 2026, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reporting that another $1 trillion was added to the federal deficit in the first five months of the year.
>The monthly budget review from the CBO, updated to February 2026 and released yesterday, showed that the government is estimated to have borrowed $308 billion last month alone.
>Of course, with more borrowing comes higher interest costs on the debt. Between October 2025 (when the 2026 fiscal year started) and February, the Treasury spent an additional $31 billion on net interest on public debt, compared to the prior year. As a result, in just five months, the Treasury forked out a total of $433 billion to service public debt, which is now nearing $38.9 trillion.
>The CBO said that outlays for interest increased “because the debt was larger than it was in the first five months of fiscal year 2025 and because of higher long-term interest rates.” It added: “Declines in short-term interest rates partially mitigated the overall rise in interest payments.”
>Despite the eye-watering sums, the deficit was actually an improvement on last year’s borrowing. For the same period (October 2024 to February 2025), the government needed to borrow an additional $142 billion compared to this year’s figure.
misterno123 on
The real question is; with all the debt rising like crazy and the fact that govt pays the interest on the debt with the new debt it is borrowing, how come financial markets are not reacting negatively? How come treasury bonds interest rates are still like 4%? How come dollar’s value somewhat steady? I will tell you why. The global financial system is rigged and manipulated by Epstein’s friends. Prove me wrong.
GothamsTrader on
Interest costs are now structurally higher than they were and there’s no way back. The way to address the problem is to cut spending, which is politically impossible. Another way is to reduce debt via real (vs reported) inflation, slowly making the dollar a worthless paper. Cuts are much better but…
HardWorkinAg on
So for each of the 342,376,200 Americans in our current census, that means we each just got another $900 of debt added to our individual debit sheets. Last. Month. Alone.
Ratb33 on
The goal is his / their greatest grift – the fleecing of the American tax payer money. Trump family and handlers have stolen billions.
And BOTH SIDES are letting it happen.
I mean, these fucks didn’t even call an emergency meeting on the weekend he starting bombing Iran.
We all knew what was coming – was inter heritage docs projects 2025. What nobody saw was a complacent and compliant congress and Supreme Court.
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>The U.S. Treasury’s borrowing showed no signs of slowing as the U.S. headed deeper into fiscal year 2026, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reporting that another $1 trillion was added to the federal deficit in the first five months of the year.
>The monthly budget review from the CBO, updated to February 2026 and released yesterday, showed that the government is estimated to have borrowed $308 billion last month alone.
>Of course, with more borrowing comes higher interest costs on the debt. Between October 2025 (when the 2026 fiscal year started) and February, the Treasury spent an additional $31 billion on net interest on public debt, compared to the prior year. As a result, in just five months, the Treasury forked out a total of $433 billion to service public debt, which is now nearing $38.9 trillion.
>The CBO said that outlays for interest increased “because the debt was larger than it was in the first five months of fiscal year 2025 and because of higher long-term interest rates.” It added: “Declines in short-term interest rates partially mitigated the overall rise in interest payments.”
>Despite the eye-watering sums, the deficit was actually an improvement on last year’s borrowing. For the same period (October 2024 to February 2025), the government needed to borrow an additional $142 billion compared to this year’s figure.
The real question is; with all the debt rising like crazy and the fact that govt pays the interest on the debt with the new debt it is borrowing, how come financial markets are not reacting negatively? How come treasury bonds interest rates are still like 4%? How come dollar’s value somewhat steady? I will tell you why. The global financial system is rigged and manipulated by Epstein’s friends. Prove me wrong.
Interest costs are now structurally higher than they were and there’s no way back. The way to address the problem is to cut spending, which is politically impossible. Another way is to reduce debt via real (vs reported) inflation, slowly making the dollar a worthless paper. Cuts are much better but…
So for each of the 342,376,200 Americans in our current census, that means we each just got another $900 of debt added to our individual debit sheets. Last. Month. Alone.
The goal is his / their greatest grift – the fleecing of the American tax payer money. Trump family and handlers have stolen billions.
And BOTH SIDES are letting it happen.
I mean, these fucks didn’t even call an emergency meeting on the weekend he starting bombing Iran.
We all knew what was coming – was inter heritage docs projects 2025. What nobody saw was a complacent and compliant congress and Supreme Court.
Corruption from the top down.