Sen.
Rick Scott (R-Fla.) warned that the U.S. government's $40 trillion debt burden has become unsustainable, pointing to roughly $3 billion in daily interest costs and urging Congress to rein in federal spending.
Scott Warns of $3 Billion Daily Interest On Saturday, in a post on X, Scott highlighted the scale of the federal debt, arguing that even decades of aggressive debt payments would barely make a dent.
"If we paid down $1 million every day since the birth of Jesus Christ, we still wouldn’t have covered even 2% of the current national debt," Scott wrote.
He then pointed to the cost of servicing the government’s existing debt.
