{"id":6339,"date":"2025-10-29T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:47:44","slug":"us-national-debt-37-64-trillion-annual-interest-payments-1216-billion-1-216-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=6339","title":{"rendered":"US National Debt: $37.64 Trillion, annual interest payments $1216 Billion ($1.216 Trillion)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17.png 524w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-17-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/fiscaldata.treasury.gov\/americas-finance-guide\/national-debt\/#key-takeaways\">Understanding the National Debt | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18.png 639w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-18-624x241.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/fiscaldata.treasury.gov\/americas-finance-guide\/national-debt\/#key-takeaways\">Understanding the National Debt | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Understanding the National Debt | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data Courtesy of Understanding the National Debt | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data<\/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-6339","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\/6339","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=6339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6342,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions\/6342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}