(Continued from Part 1.) Interest on the National Debt There are three categories in the US budget. Mandatory spending is mandated by law to be paid. Discretionary spending can be adjusted for each department, or the funding can be eliminated at any time. Interest payments are in their own category but for all intents and purposes are in the mandatory category. The 2025 budget has the interest payment estimated at $969 billion, just a hair under one trillion. If I can tweak that up to $995 billion based on historical budget misses it will make the math easier as this … The post Prepared For Financial TEOTWAWKI? – Part 2, by St. Funogas appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.