[News] Interest on the Debt Now Outruns Defense for a Third Year, and the Bill Is Still Repricing
Fiscal 2026 closed with an estimated $2 trillion deficit and about $1.1 trillion in net interest, a line Congress cannot appropriate away that now costs more than defense, and rising yields mean the bill has not finished growing.
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