March 5, 2024 – from CBO – Congressional Budget Office

My cmnt: Click the above link to the CBO for the interactive graphics (much easier to view)

My cmnt: With interest on the national debt ballooning from 5% to nearly 11% of the total budget in the last 6 yrs we are on course for fiscal destruction.

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The federal deficit in 2023 was $1.7 trillion, equal to 6.3 percent of gross domestic product.