Interest payments on the debt are now so large that the spending is higher than the outlays for the Departments of Defense, Commerce, Homeland Security, Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, and the U.S. Coronavirus Refundable Credits scheme—combined.
Conservatives used to crow about how they’re the “party of fiscal responsibility” whilst simultaneously blowing up the deficit on completely unhinged endeavors every time they got into power.
They still do, but they used to, too.