And this is from the Treasury. This isn't from, you know, my joint economic economist or Schweikert's brain. This is from the Treasury's own numbers. They're at now 1,143,6,000,000,000 interest this fiscal year. And this was put together before the most recent pop in interest rates. So I've said this, and this seems to upset some folks. (15:07–15:20)
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Asserts that the interest on U.S. debt this fiscal year is 1.1436 trillion dollars.
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