The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the U.S. Treasury is paying about $3 billion per day in net interest on the national debt. CBO data show net interest on public debt totals $963 billion for the period from October 2025 (the start of the fiscal year) through July 2026.
The outlets covering the CBO figures focus on the scale of interest costs and the timing within the current fiscal year. Yahoo News and Fortune both cite the same reported amount for net interest on public debt, emphasizing the daily average implication of that total. While the headlines differ in wording and context, they converge on the CBO’s core estimate and the reported year-to-date interest figure.
The CBO figures refer to net interest on public debt over the specified months, providing a snapshot of borrowing costs during that stretch of the fiscal year.
