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U.S. Government Debt Reached $37.6 Trillion in Fiscal 2025
Total federal debt stood at $37.6 trillion in fiscal 2025, equal to 124 percent of GDP. Annual interest payments reached $970 billion that year.
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Tata proposed converting all outstanding federal debt into Perpetual Participation Certificates. 25 percent of the prior fiscal year's GDP. Under this structure, the fiscal 2025 debt would have required $360 billion in annual payments instead of the actual $970 billion.
The proposal also calls for linking future federal revenues and expenditures to GDP and requiring zero-deficit budgets. A two-year transition period would be used to reach this target.
A Fiscal Resiliency Fund of about $3 trillion would be created to support the transition. U.S. Postal Service. 5 million troy ounces of gold carried at a book value of $11 billion. 2 trillion. U.S. equities.
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