https://drudge.com/user/Danforth New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 https://drudge.com/news/294033/surplus-40-trillion-debt-one https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/how-the-us-government-pushed-the-national-debt-to-40-trillion-in-less-than-a-generation-163523525.html In 2000, we ran a surplus budget. One generation later, we're $40 Trillion in debt, and the annual service on that debt is now more than we spend on Defense. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:19:08 -0400 Danforth https://drudge.com/news/294033/surplus-40-trillion-debt-one#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.294033 discussion, 0.5 daily 294033