debt service
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Even if the tariff money were specifically directed at debt service, it wouldn’t have done much to defray the roughly $1 trillion in interest the government will incur this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
According to the foundation, more than 60 countries are paying more in debt service than on health and education.
From Barron's ● Dec. 4, 2025
Of the $62 million in debt service payments the public had to make each year, $50 million had been coming from USAir, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported in 2003.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
So Japan needs money for defense, stimulus, currency support and debt service — all at once.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 20, 2025
The government also obtained an IMF standby loan in January 1992 and reached agreements with commercial bankers on the repayment of interest arrears and on the reduction of debt and debt service payments.
From The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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