'That's what decades of reckless, hegemonic rule by The Uniparty™️ does': Mike Lee sounds off about US debt, spending



Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is sounding the alarm about the massive interest on the nation's debt.

"We're so screwed. And glued. Also tattooed. Interest will top $1.1 trillion this year. That's what decades of reckless, hegemonic rule by The Uniparty™️ does," Lee tweeted.

"It's time to clean house."

The senator made the comments in response to a post by E.J. Antoni, "Research Fellow in the Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget," who had tweeted, "Interest on the debt is going to the moon: Treasury now projects it will cost over $1.1 trillion during the current fiscal year."

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The U.S. national debt is more than $34.5 trillion.

Lee sounded off about politicians who have been green-lighting massive spending measures.

"I hope the fleeting moments of media praise—heaped on the heads of complicit politicians each time The Uniparty™️ passed a bloated spending bill—were worth the resulting devastation," the senator tweeted. "I hope the earmarks that served as propellant for most of the spending—even as Americans repeatedly begged Congress to abandon earmarks—were worth crippling economic growth, mobility, and opportunity for hardworking families," he continued. "I hope the warm and fuzzy feeling members of The Uniparty™️ had, all in the name of 'getting things done,' were at least enjoyed by someone while they lasted," Lee added.

"It's time to clean house," he declared. "It's time for a new approach in Washington—one that doesn't pretend we're drawing from an endless well. It's about to become painfully clear that we're not," he concluded.

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The stock markets may have had a good month in November — but that doesn’t mean it’s going to last.

After the United States has racked up $20 trillion in federal debt since 2008, Glenn Beck believes the next debt scare could be the real thing.

Glenn refers to an article titled “The Federal Reserve Broke the Budget. Buckle Up for What Comes Next” by Jed Graham of Investors.com, which details the undeniable reasons for the incoming crash.

“Exhibit A,” Glenn reads, “in the case of the broken federal budget is the deficit's surge in fiscal 2023, which ended Sept. 30. Unemployment was near a record low and GDP growth was strong.”

All that sounds great, but under those conditions, the budget deficit would be more likely to shrink. In this case, it doubled to $2 trillion.

“After the Fed sent more than $100 billion in interest on its bond portfolio to the Treasury in fiscal 2022,” Glenn continues, “it had to halt those payments last year as bond prices fell.”

“Having let inflation get out of the bag, an 8.7% cost-of-living adjustment stoked a $134 billion increase in Social Security checks.”

About $100 billion then went to FDIC bailouts to banks like Silicon Valley Bank.

“To top it off, the Fed hiking its key rate past 5% forced Uncle Sam to pony up an extra $177 billion in interest on the debt,” which Graham believes is a problem that will continue growing by “leaps and bounds.”

Glenn sees an end in sight.

“We’re going to have a surge. Enjoy it while it lasts,” he says.


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If you thought the interest rates on your mortgage and credit card were bad, wait until you see what the U.S. government has accrued.

The United States has succeeded in creating a yearly interest payment of over $1 trillion on the national debt.

“We can borrow at higher and higher interest rates, so we can make it $2 trillion soon,” Glenn Beck jokes to financial expert Carol Roth.

Roth notes that Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen has said that over the next six months, the U.S. will need to borrow almost $1.6 trillion.

Roth has also observed that there’s “absolutely no appetite to cut spending” within the U.S. government.

“We are in a really perilous financial position.”

However, while the U.S. debt rises, there are still many who believe this will not be our downfall.

“People still tell me, 'We’re not going to lose the reserve currency. We’re going to be fine. The dollar is going to be fine. We’re going to come out of this,'” Glenn says, adding, “they can’t explain to me how, but they seem to be right.”

Meanwhile, the world is at war — which Roth notes could bring about a new financial world order.

“Not every war brings about a new financial world order, but every new financial world order has been brought about by war. And to the extent, God forbid, things escalate in a crazy way, that becomes an opportunity to reset,” she says.


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