Interest payments on the national debt
A) account for over 50 percent of government expenditures.
B) have been falling since the 1970s.
C) have been rising since the 1950s.
D) have been reduced to zero by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act.
E) are twice the size of the federal budget deficit.
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