The biggest budget item in the US government budget is the cost of interest for the $40 trillion national debt.

Approximately 14 cents of every dollar the US federal government spends is allocated to paying interest on borrowed money.

Then what would happen is that $40 trillion that America has in debt, it would disappear because it would be absorbed by the world.

The interest alone on the US federal debt is a staggering $1.2 trillion.

The US national debt reached $39 trillion as of fiscal year 2025.