$24 Billion a Week
July 13, 2026
That is how much the federal government is paying on its debt. The deficit for the current fiscal year has now hit $1.4 trillion. Trump and the Republicans have no restraint. And yet, conservatives, and especially conservative Christians, will tell us until the November election that we must vote for Republicans to keep those evil Democrats out of office.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
