Just wait. As federal spending continues to accelerate, I fully expect the government to start reporting EBITDA at some point so they can just act like those pesky interest payments don’t exist.$1,051,873,000,000: Record Federal Tax Collections Top $1 Trillion in 3 Months
The Treasury has also spent $152,937,000,000 in interest on Treasury debt securities.
Just extrapolated, that would be over $600B/year in interest payments. Just not having to pay that and a slight haircut with a normal budget and it would be balanced. But it is what it is and going to be insatiable requirement of taxes just to pay the current interest, much less at higher rates.