US Will Run Out of Paper to Print Dollars

The US national debt has risen so high that Washington will no longer be able to print any more dollars to service it, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. 

 

He was commenting on a statement made by his US counterpart John Kirby on Wednesday, that the US has already spent 96% of the funds allocated for Ukraine since early 2022, when its long-running tensions with neighbor Russia turned to armed conflict. 

 

When a reporter suggested that Washington could just print money indefinitely unless the printing press breaks down, Peskov (right) pointed out that there will simply be no paper left.

 

Presently, US outstanding public debt amounts to roughly $33.6 trillion, after it exceeded its $31.4-trillion debt ceiling in January. 

 

According to Congressional Budget Office data released earlier this year, interest payments on the national debt amounted to $475 billion in fiscal year 2022. That translates to about $1.3 billion per day and approximately $54.2 million per hour. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note that over the past year the federal government’s borrowing costs have increased rapidly due to a series of interest-rate hikes, and will continue growing, the CBO warned.

 

It has already been projected that within the next 30 years, servicing the national debt will become the largest expenditure in the federal budget.