On this page you will find the National Debt by year and Interest paid each year along with the Deficit from 1980 until the present.

  Where did these numbers come from and more importantly can they be trusted?

Follow the Money

Stopping this runaway debt and interest serves the “Common Good”

  These numbers are to the best of my knowledge were sound until 2009 at which time interest paid out changed radically from the year before. In 2012 $75 Billion was transferred from a DOD account (Department of Defense) and used as an Interest payment. The Bureau of Public Debt admitted to this in 2012, but since then the references’ have been removed, hence the lack of trust in the numbers after 2012.
  Transferring funds as was done in 2012; I firmly believe is still continuing and is a violation of Federal Law, either misallocation of government funds or misappropriation of government funds.
 What this nation has suffered was a manipulation of the books; sadly if the books were doctored concerning the interest payments the odds are that the books have been manipulated concerning the deficits also.
  A month by month pay out for 2012, 2013 and 2014 are no longer available but 2015 & 2019 are posted here for you.

From the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Extraordinary Measures
have become
Standard Operating Procedures

A cool $3 trillion: That’s a lot of 0’s the nation owes

  Washington - The national debt yesterday totaled more than $3 trillion for the first time in history, the Treasury Department reported yesterday.
  That’s $3,000,000,000,000. Count them: a three and 12 zeroes.
  A person counting a $1,000 bill each second would take 133 years just to reach $1 trillion.
  And when the nation debt reached $3 trillion, it meant that it would cost every man, woman and child $12,000 to pay it off.
  “The debt subject to limit did go over $3 trillion on Monday” confirmed Peter Hollenback, public affairs officer for the Treasury’s Bureau of Public Debt.
  The actual level of public debt subject to statutory limit at the end of the day was $3.023 trillion. That’s just $99.59 billion under the statutory limit of $3.123 trillion. The national debt stood at $2.989 trillion last Friday.
  Hollenback said that despite a growing number of income tax receipts at this time of year he expected the debt to continue to grow as long as the budget was not balanced.
  Congress enacted the current debt limit last November.
  The debt reached $1 billion in 1916 during World War I, climbing to $278 billion at the end of World War II.
  It reached its first trillion on Oct. 1, 1981 and rose to $2 trillion on April 3, 1986.
  The rapid growth in the debt is the result of the government’s huge deficits for the past decade. Democratic opponents often pointed to the fact that President Reagan ran up more public debt in his eight years in office than all his predecessors put together.
 The federal deficit has continued to grow since then and totaled $152.1 billion during the fiscal year ended Sept. 30.
  By the end of February, the deficit had reached $97.52 billion, just $2.48 billion less than the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction target for the entire year. Interest on the deficit during February totaled $17.32 billion and is expected to reach $254.85 billion for the year.
  Analysts have said the target for fiscal 1990 has all but been abandoned, with some suggesting the actual imbalance for the year will total $160 billion to $165 billion.

U.S. Treasury
(Figures in millions)
(Add 000,000 to each #)