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Aired: 2026-05-07
Duration: 02:59


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=== National Debt Hits 100 Percent GDP (00:19) ===

[00:02:39]  Good morning.
[00:02:39]  It's Thursday, May 7th.
[00:02:41]  The national debt hit 100% of GDP, the gross domestic product, at the end of March.
[00:02:47]  It's the first time since just after World War II, an interest on the federal debt now tops $1 trillion a year.
[00:02:54]  That's more than the U.S. spends on defense or Medicare.
[00:02:58]  The Congressional Budget Office projects.