{"id":2867,"date":"2019-01-27T02:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T02:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:08:07","slug":"the-us-government-shutdown-us-national-debt-21-6-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"The US Government Shutdown: US National Debt $21.6 Trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of October 28, 2018, debt held by the public was <em><strong>$15.8 trillion<\/strong><\/em> and intragovernmental holdings were <em><strong>$5.8 trillion<\/strong><\/em>, for a total or &#8220;National Debt&#8221; of <strong>$21.6 trillion<\/strong>.\u00a0Debt held by the public was approximately 77% of GDP in 2017, ranked 43rd highest out of 207 countries.\u00a0The Congressional Budget Office forecast in April 2018 that the ratio will rise to nearly 100% by 2028, perhaps higher if current policies are extended beyond their scheduled expiration date. As of December 2017, $9.3 trillion or approximately 45% of the debt held by the public was owned by foreign investors, the largest being China (about $1.18 trillion) then Japan (about $1.06 trillion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of October 28, 2018, debt held by the public was $15.8 trillion and intragovernmental holdings were $5.8 trillion, for a total or &#8220;National Debt&#8221; of $21.6 trillion.\u00a0Debt held by the public was approximately 77% of GDP in 2017, ranked 43rd highest out of 207 countries.\u00a0The Congressional Budget Office forecast in April 2018 that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}