What a time to be alive.
Yes, you can take your Venmo money and use it to help pay down the national debt.
Libertarians! This is your time!
From Axios:
Driving the news: A post on X from NPR's Jack Corbett went viral Wednesday night, sharing a screenshot of the Treasury Department's ‘Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt' page.
Treasury's operated the little-known program for decades, letting people send gifts by bank transfer, credit card, PayPal or Venmo to help the government pay down its $36.7 trillion in debt.
Per Treasury data, people have donated $67.3 million since late 1996, about 20 minutes' worth of debt.
Let's see, 20 minutes worth of debt knocked out over the last 29 years through donations ... so this Venmo and PayPal thing would probably buy us another 15 minutes or so from impending debt doom.
Yeah, I'm gonna put the over/under on users who do this ON PURPOSE at like five and a half.
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