{"id":76839,"date":"2026-03-18T20:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=76839"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:16:32","slug":"us-to-hits-39-trillion-debt-next-week-what-does-it-mean-for-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=76839","title":{"rendered":"US To Hits $39 Trillion Debt Next Week: What Does It Mean For Crypto?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. national debt will hit $39 trillion on March 25, 2026, growing at $7.23 billion per day as the Iran war added $12 billion in costs during the first two weeks.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The $39 Trillion Breaking Point<\/h3>\n<p>Total gross national debt will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/03\/18\/national-debt-baby-boomers-medicare-social-security-trillions\/\">reach<\/a> $39 trillion, equivalent to $113,638 per person or $288,283 per household.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/61882\">projects<\/a> the federal deficit at $1.9 trillion in fiscal 2026, with federal debt rising to 120% of GDP by 2036.<\/p>\n<p>Interest expense reached $520 billion through the first five months of fiscal 2026, up 8.8% from last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury paid out $93.48 billion in interest in February alone, making interest the second-largest spending category behind only Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warns that by fiscal 2031, the average interest rate paid on federal debt will exceed the country\u2019s economic growth rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cost of borrowing will grow faster than the economy\u2019s ability to pay for it, creating &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51339594\/us-to-hits-39-trillion-debt-next-week-what-does-it-mean-for-crypto?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"US\" to hits trillion debt next week: what does it mean for crypto>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. national debt will hit $39 trillion on March 25, 2026, growing at $7.23 billion per day as the Iran war added $12 billion in costs during the first two weeks. The $39 Trillion Breaking Point Total gross national debt will reach $39 trillion, equivalent to $113,638 per person or $288,283 per household.\u00a0 The Congressional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-76839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}