Here's a breakdown of the U.S. government's major annual expenditures for fiscal year 2025:

🇺🇸 Military Spending
$849.8 billion This is the Department of Defense's budget request for FY2025, covering personnel, operations, procurement, and research.

🧓 Social Security
$1.57 trillion This includes payments to retirees, people with disabilities, and survivors. It represents about 22% of total federal spending.

💸 Interest on National Debt
$952 billion This is the projected cost of servicing the federal debt in 2025, making it the second-largest spending category after Social Security.

🧾 Total for These Three Categories
Approximately $3.37 trillion That’s nearly half of the federal government’s total projected outlays of $7.0 trillion for 2025.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3703410/department-of-defense-releases-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2025-defense-budget/

https://economicsinsider.com/us-federal-budget-2025/

https://www.pgpf.org/programs-and-projects/fiscal-policy/monthly-interest-tracker-national-debt/

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If I bought a German car for $30000 20 years ago,
and that money ended up in a German bank, and the German bank
bought US treasury bonds with that money, how much
would that bank have collected in interest from those treasury bonds in
the last 20 years, and how much would that bank collect
from the $30000 plus the interest received in the last 20 years
in the next 20 years?

Short answer:
If the German bank invested the full $30,000 into 20‑year U.S. Treasury bonds and simply reinvested at the average long‑term yield, then:

Over the past 20 years:
The bank would have earned roughly $18,000–$20,000 in interest.

Over the next 20 years:
The bank would earn roughly $38,000–$40,000 in additional interest if rates stay similar.

Total value after 40 years:
About $86,000–$90,000.

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