Sacks @ 00:28:37Inconclusive
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By 2030, annual net interest expense on U.S. federal government debt will exceed $1 trillion per year and will constitute more than 25% of total federal budget outlays.
And I also read that by 2030, we're going to have over $1 trillion of interest expense owed by the US government every year. That is money that's not funding anyone's Social security. It's not funding anyone's healthcare. It's not funding one weapons program. It's not funding anything we want. It's just the big it's going to be more than a quarter of our total federal budget.View on YouTube
Explanation
The prediction is about conditions in 2030:
By 2030, annual net interest expense on U.S. federal government debt will exceed $1 trillion per year and will constitute more than 25% of total federal budget outlays.
As of November 30, 2025, 2030 has not occurred, so the prediction cannot yet be directly evaluated.
However, existing projections are relevant for context:
- The U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that net interest outlays will exceed $1 trillion annually by around 2026–2027 and continue rising thereafter.
- For 2030 specifically, recent CBO long-term or 10‑year baseline projections show net interest as a significant but still smaller share of total federal outlays—generally on the order of the mid‑teens as a percent of total spending, not as high as 25% in their central estimates. (Exact percentages vary slightly across projection vintages, but they are well below one-quarter.)
Because:
- The target year (2030) is still in the future, and
- Projections, even from CBO, are not certainties, especially about interest rates and deficits,
we cannot yet say whether net interest will actually exceed $1T and reach more than 25% of the federal budget in 2030. Therefore, the proper classification is “inconclusive (too early)”, even though current projections suggest the dollar-amount part (> $1T) is plausible while the “>25% of total outlays” part looks aggressive relative to baseline forecasts.