U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), one of the few Republicans willing to speak out against President Trump and his administration when he disagrees with a policy, responded today to a bar chart titled ‘Bond Market Returns’ released by the Treasury Department.
As seen below, sharing the chart, the Department wrote: “U.S. Treasuries are having their best year since 2020, and the investors who had confidence and faith in President Trump’s economic policies have been richly rewarded. Never bet against @POTUS or America!”
Massie replied: “Bragging that we’re paying banks, foreign countries, and other institutions a record amount of interest to service our national debt is not the flex you think it is.”
Bragging that we’re paying banks, foreign countries, and other institutions a record amount of interest to service our national debt is not the flex you think it is. https://t.co/E9AJrPKaA2
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 6, 2025
Liberals are having a field day in the comments including social influencer ‘Turnbull,’ who replied to the Treasury Department: “You understand the higher it is, the worse it is for our country? You know that, right? Right?”
Historian and Professor at Maryville College Aaron Astor, replied: “Higher long-term interest rates are a big reason housing is unaffordable. You’re celebrating this? If you were trying to pull a Paul Volcker and jack up interest rates to beat inflation, that’d be one thing. But…that’s not what you’re doing here at all. Oy.”
Ramit Sethi, New York Times bestselling author of ‘I Will Teach You to Be Rich’ and host of the Netflix series ‘How to Get Rich,’ delivered a withering reply to the Treasury Department’s post: “The people cheering this are the exact same people who argue with me that we should cut taxes on the wealthy because they are ‘job creators.’”
Investopedia, in its treasuries primer, writes: “Investors who purchase Treasuries are lending the government money. The government, in turn, pays interest to these bondholders. The interest payments, known as coupons, represent the cost of borrowing to the government.”
