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ECONOMY • UNITED STATES

U.S. Treasury interest costs projected at $20 trillion over the next decade

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Yahoo Finance’s headline says the Treasury is projected to spend $20 trillion on national-debt interest over the next decade, reaching $200 billion a month by 2036. The article summary is incomplete, so it provides no basis for assessing the estimate or its assumptions.

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Debt-interest costs affect federal budget choices and could matter to taxpayers and public services. The supplied report does not explain what policies or spending could change.