U.S. Owes India $216 Billion As American Debt Soars To $29 Trillion: Lawmaker
In the year 2000, U.S. national debt stood at $5.6 trillion.
The world's largest economy, owes India $216 billion in loan as the country's debt grows to a record $29 trillion, an American lawmaker said, cautioning the leadership against galloping foreign debt, the largest of which comes from China and Japan.
In 2020, the U.S. national debt was $23.4 trillion, that was $72,309 in debt per person.
“We are going to grow our debt to $29 trillion. That is even more debt owed per citizen. There is a lot of misinformation about where the debt is going. The top two countries we owe the debt to are China and Japan, not actually our friends,” Congressman Alex Mooney said.
We are at global competition with China all the time. They are holding a lot of the debt. We owe China and Japan over $1 trillion each, the Republican Senator from West Virginia said on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as he and others opposed the latest stimulus package of $2 trillion.
In January, U.S. President Joe Biden announced a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package to tackle the economic fallout from the pandemic, including direct financial aid to average Americans, support to businesses and to provide a boost to the national vaccination programme.
“The people who are loaning us the money we have to pay back are not necessarily people who have our best interest at heart. Brazil, we owe $258 billion. India, we owe $216 billion,” Mooney said.
The U.S. national debt was $5.6 trillion in 2000. It doubled during the Obama administration.
“Since the eight years Obama was President, we doubled our national debt,” he said urging his Congressional colleagues to consider this national debt issue before approving the stimulus package.
Congressmen Mooney said that things have gone completely out of control. The Congressional Budget Office estimates an additional $104 trillion will be added by 2050. The Congressional Budget Office forecasted debt would rise 200%.
“Today, as I stand here right now, we have $27.9 trillion in national debt, that is actually a little more than $84,000 of debt to every American citizen right here today,” Mooney said.