马斯克对美国债务敲响警钟，想起特朗普时代的8万亿美元
世界首富、现任新成立的政府效率部（DOGE）负责人埃隆·马斯克分享了他对美国国债不断增加的看法。在他试图提高人们对债务的认识时，他遭到了一些强烈反对，认为特朗普在dent美国总统的第一个任期内增加了约 8 万亿美元的债务。
据报道，美国政府的利息支付已飙升至1990年以来的最高水平。在截至9月份的财年中，财政部支出占净利息8820亿美元。加上利率成本，现在已经达到27.7万亿美元，这不是很令人震惊吗？
马斯克对国家债务敲响警钟
马斯克在X 帖子中写道，很大一部分人不知道有国债这样的东西。他试图告知大多数人甚至不知道这个问题有多大。他补充说，该国支付的利息现在超过了军事开支。
总督府负责人强调，只有一小部分人明白政府超支会导致通货膨胀。他甚至分享了马克·安德森（Marc Andreessen）的一段视频，其中表示“联邦政府今天支付的债务利息比我们在国防部预算中支付的还要多。”
安德森在视频中进一步提到，美国每年仅支付12亿美元的债务利息，而政府总支出约为7万亿美元。然而，债务总额约为 35 万亿美元，并且每 100 天就会增加 1 万亿美元的债务。
🚨“如今联邦政府支付的债务利息比我们为国防部预算支付的还要多。我们每年仅支付 1.2B 美元的债务利息。政府总支出约为 7T 美元。利息支付为 1.2T 美元。 DOD 每年为 $800B。总债务为 35T 美元，它...... pic.twitter.com/uegWgvYyvx
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One user reminded him of the debt Trump added during his term. He called out that the President-elect had added $8 trillion to the debt during his first term and the taxpayers are still paying interest on that. Even after this, Trump is looking to add more tax cuts allegedly for the rich, and that too without being able to avoid adding more to the debt.
Can D.O.G.E make the cuts?
The US’s interest payments saw a surge reportedly due to the soaring budget deficits which was driven by the rising spending on Social Security and Medicare, COVID-related expenditures. However, it saw revenue constraints from the 2017 tax cuts. Eventually, a spike in interest rates has also added pressure on influencing the financial markets.
Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk pushed ahead with their newly created D.O.G.E to cut federal spending by $500 billion annually. They have even outlined plans to focus on trimming unauthorized expenditures and those misallocated beyond Congressional intent. Meanwhile, their bold claims to cut the spending have already faced skepticism.
Musk has previously suggested a higher target of $2 trillion in savings but experts consider this as ambitious. This comes after looking at the bulk of the US budget tied up in mandatory spending on Social Security, Medicare, and defense.
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