[OC] Ich habe mir jeden Dollar vorgestellt, den die US-Regierung im Geschäftsjahr 2000, im Geschäftsjahr 2024 und im Geschäftsjahr 2025 ausgegeben hat – die Nettozinsen (970 Milliarden US-Dollar) übersteigen jetzt zum ersten Mal die Nationalverteidigung (917 Milliarden US-Dollar).

**Source & Methodology**

All data from official U.S. government primary sources:

**FY 2025:** U.S. Treasury Combined Statement FY2025 — Outlays by Function
→ [https://fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/combined-statement/](https://fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/combined-statement/)

**FY 2024:** Derived from FY2025 Treasury Combined Statement (year-over-year changes)

**FY 2000:** OMB Historical Tables, Table 3.1 — Outlays by Superfunction and Function
→ [https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/historical-tables/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/historical-tables/)

**Why these three years?**
– FY 2000: Pre-9/11 baseline, budget surplus era
– FY 2024: Most recent completed fiscal year before FY 2025
– FY 2025: Latest data — first year Net Interest exceeded National Defense

**Key Definitions:**
– „Net Interest“ = Budget Function 900 (net interest outlays)
– Net Interest FY2025 = $970.4B
– National Defense FY2025 = $916.6B
– All values nominal dollars
– Fiscal years: October 1 – September 30

**Tools:** Python, Plotly

Happy to answer questions!