President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on May 28. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)

By Jacob Bogage

President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration proposal would lead the federal government to spend hundreds of billions of dollars extra paying new interest on the soaring national debt, congressional bookkeepers reported Thursday, as lawmakers come to grips with the gargantuan cost of the GOP’s policy agenda. Subscribe for unlimited access to The Post You can cancel anytime. Subscribe

The Congressional Budget Office projected that new borrowing the legislation would force the government to make would also lead to $550 billion more in interest payments. That would raise the overall price tag of the measure, titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to $3 trillion over

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