US Faces ‘Unsustainable’ Spiral of Rising Debt and Interest Costs

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior Washington correspondent Saleha Mohsin looks at the rising interest burden on the national debt for her podcast. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

When the US borrows money, just like any debtor, it needs to pay its loans back with interest.