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The treasury continues to pay coupon payments to the Fed.

Though you're right that Fed is partially monetizing deficit spending, that money gets reabsorbed over time through coupon payments.

However, Fed typically will repurchase to keep balance sheet stable. Hopefully they actually do QT like they're saying to start reducing the balance sheet



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