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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

National Debt at Breaking Point; Tech Allowed CCP Access

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Education, Government

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

America’s national debt has reached a breaking point, and interest rates could cause a spiral that becomes even harder to break from.

In other news, internet routers from TP-Link are being accused of giving a backdoor to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). And now, Texas is suing them.

We'll discuss these topics and others in this episode of Crossroads.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Crossroads. Well, we're at a break in point. America's national debt has reached unsustainable levels, and even the mainstream media is now admitting it.

0:09.9

Interest rates could actually cause a spiral, and if we get into this spiral, we kind of can't break out of it, frankly.

0:17.0

Also, in other news, internet routers from TPLink, if you have one in your house,

0:21.2

TP link routers are being accused of giving a backdoor to the Chinese Communist Party.

0:27.6

And guess what? They're now being sued in Texas because of it.

0:30.6

On another topic, there are discussions swirling that Trump might get to appoint a fourth Supreme Court justice.

0:39.3

Kind of unheard of, he might actually get it.

0:41.3

I'll be talking about these topics a lot more today.

0:43.3

Also answering your questions.

0:46.3

I do have the chat open on both YouTube and Epic TV.

0:49.3

So, hello in the chat.

0:51.3

Judith, Joachim, Seymour, Summer Rose, Nancy, everyone, thank you for being here.

0:58.4

All right, first off, look, America's national debt has reached a breaking point.

1:04.5

We're finally here.

1:06.6

And the big problem with this is this.

1:08.8

It's not just we have to pay it back.

1:10.7

The problem is the interest rates. Anybody who's been in credit card debt, anybody's been in like, you know, college student loan debt knows the interest rates are horrible. The problem is we let our interest rates be set by a third party organization or is the Federal Reserve. And those interest rates are so high, we could get to a point where

1:28.3

basically all of our tax dollars or most of them are doing nothing other than paying for interest.

1:33.3

And if we enter that spiral, it becomes very hard to get out of it because we're never paying off the actual debt.

1:40.3

Anybody experience this college debt where you're paying like 2,000 a month or

1:45.3

a thousand a month just on the interest rates and you never make an impact on the debt itself?

1:51.3

That's where America could be with basically our entire tax budget. Huge deal, very big

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