Current interest paid this fiscal year is over $600 billion and we are just now entering April.

The annual interest payable should be around 3 trillion, with a T, for this fiscal.

This is at an average interest rate (across all debts) of about 3.4%.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/interest-expense-avg-interest-rates/

Okay so the United States got nothing and Iran gets $2 million per ship that transits the Strait of Hornuz which will be paid in Chinese yuan.

Definitely sounds like a trump win. I mean the guy bankrupted everything he ran so this is par for the course.

Now the next question will be to my bank. Why they're charging me a $2 tax payment fee when I haven't made any tax payments recently.

Sigh.

So I quit out of the chat which was going to take 51 minutes to reach an agent. And I was in the middle of doing other things when I got a phone call from Bell.

The charge is a complete error and will be reversed. So that's good. Why there was a $200 modem charge on my account when they didn't touch my modem is beyond me.

$200 is a lot of money for people. This is the difference between food and not food. Maybe they could get it right.