Washington will soon be unable to service its growing national debt, Dmitry Peskov has said
The US national debt has risen so high that Washington will no longer be able to print any more dollars to service it, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
He was commenting on a statement made by his US counterpart John Kirby on Wednesday, that the US has already spent 96% of the funds allocated for Ukraine since early 2022, when its long-running tensions with neighbor Russia turned to armed conflict. When a reporter suggested that Washington could just print money indefinitely unless the printing press breaks down, Peskov pointed out that there will simply be no paper left.

克里姆林宮發(fā)言人德米特里·佩斯科夫(Dmitry Peskov)表示,美國國債已經(jīng)上升到了一個(gè)無法再通過印鈔來償還的程度。他在周四對(duì)他的美國同行約翰·柯比(John Kirby)周三的一份聲明發(fā)表評(píng)論時(shí)如是說??卤缺硎?,自2022年初與鄰國俄羅斯的長期緊張局勢升級(jí)為武裝沖突以來,美國已經(jīng)花掉了分配給烏克蘭的資金的96%。當(dāng)一名記者提出華盛頓可以無限制地印鈔直到印刷機(jī)壞掉時(shí),佩斯科夫指出,簡單來說就是沒有紙了。

“I read recently that the United States spends about $200 million an hour on servicing its debt,” he said. “They will run out of paper soon,” he added. Currently, US outstanding public debt amounts to roughly $33.6 trillion, after it exceeded its $31.4-trillion debt ceiling in January. According to Congressional Budget Office data released earlier this year, interest payments on the national debt amounted to $475 billion in fiscal year 2022. That translates to about $1.3 billion per day and approximately $54.2 million per hour. Over the past year the federal government’s borrowing costs have increased rapidly due to a series of interest-rate hikes, and will continue growing, the CBO warned. Within the next 30 years, servicing the national debt will become the largest expenditure in the federal budget, outpacing healthcare and social security, it added.

他說:“我最近讀到美國每小時(shí)大約花費(fèi)2億美元來償還國債?!彼a(bǔ)充說:“他們很快就會(huì)用完紙?!蹦壳埃绹磧斶€的公共債務(wù)總額約為33.6萬億美元,自今年1月超過了31.4萬億美元的債務(wù)上限。根據(jù)國會(huì)預(yù)算辦公室今年早些時(shí)候發(fā)布的數(shù)據(jù),2022財(cái)政年度國債利息支付金額為4750億美元。這相當(dāng)于每天13億美元,大約每小時(shí)5420萬美元。由于一系列的利率上調(diào),過去一年聯(lián)邦政府的借款成本迅速增加,并將繼續(xù)增加,國會(huì)預(yù)算辦公室警告說。在未來30年內(nèi),償還國債將成為聯(lián)邦預(yù)算中最大的支出項(xiàng)目,超過醫(yī)療保健和社會(huì)保障支出。