Is America Going Bankrupt? $39 Trillion In Debt, $1 Trillion In Interest & What The Black Community Needs To Do Right Now

As of June 2026, the United States is carrying $39.2 trillion in total national debt — growing by $8.19 billion every single day. The government is paying $1 trillion a year just in interest alone — more than it spends on Medicare, national defense, or Medicaid. And the Congressional Budget Office projects that interest payments alone will grow to $2.1 trillion a year by 2036. This is not a political conversation. It is a math problem. And it has real consequences for everyday Americans — especially the Black community, which is historically the first to feel the effects when the economy weakens.

In this episode of Past Present Pushback, XO, AZ, and CDA sit in the man cave and have a real financial education conversation — how we got here, what it means, how it hits the Black community specifically, and what we can actually do about it. Not theory. Not politics. Real financial tools and real talk about how to protect yourself and your family while a government that spent beyond its means figures out what to do next.

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RESOURCES —

• TreasuryDirect.gov — buy I-Bonds directly from the US Treasury

• USASpending.gov — see where your tax dollars actually go

• GreenlineTheCommunity.com — find Black-owned banks and credit unions

• NACA.com — mortgage assistance and homebuyer education

• HUD.gov — down payment assistance programs by state

• NerdWallet, Investopedia — free financial education resources

• 'The Total Money Makeover' by Dave Ramsey — debt elimination framework

• 'I Will Teach You To Be Rich' by Ramit Sethi — practical personal finance for young adults