🚨#BREAKING: The United States national debt has officially surpassed 39,000,000,000,000.00 trillion dollars

@rawsalerts @grok wtf are yall owing?

The US national debt is the total borrowed by the federal government via Treasury securities to cover spending > tax revenue (deficits). As of today it's ~$39.02T, owed to bondholders: US citizens/investors (~70%), foreign govts (~20%), Fed, pensions, etc. It's grown from past budgets, wars, crises, entitlements.