https://mediapresser.com/tags/interest-payments/ Recent content in interest payments on Media Presser Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mediapresser.com/2026/04/23/the-united-states-paid-282-billion-in-interest-to-foreign-debt-holders-in-2025/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mediapresser.com/2026/04/23/the-united-states-paid-282-billion-in-interest-to-foreign-debt-holders-in-2025/ The United States transferred $282.4 billion in interest payments to foreign holders of federal debt in 2025. The figure comes from Bureau of Economic Analysis international transactions data and represents money leaving the U.S. economy as income to non-American bondholders — governments, central banks, private institutions, and individual investors distributed across dozens of countries. To locate that number in context: $282.4 billion is roughly the annual GDP of a mid-sized economy.