America's debt situation? It's gotten wild. We're sitting at $38.4 trillion now. The kicker? Just servicing that debt costs $1.22 trillion annually.

Let me break down why that matters. Washington pulls in roughly $5 trillion from taxes, tariffs, all the usual revenue streams. Which means a quarter of everything the government collects goes straight to interest payments. One. Quarter. And that percentage keeps climbing.

Meanwhile federal spending runs around $7 trillion. Do the math—there's a $2 trillion gap between what comes in and what goes out, every single year.

The debt spiral isn't slowing down. Each year that interest bill eats up more of the budget, leaving less room for anything else. Eventually something's gotta give.