The fed is not a part of the US Government financially. When the fed receives cash, it is destroyed. It does not go back into treasury coffers.
Cash received in the form of principal payments is "destroyed" (by debiting outstanding assets with corresponding credits to outstanding liabilities in the Fed's balance sheet).
[a] https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-interest-rates-fuel-loss...
In this system the only thing worse than creating more debt (currency) is to not create more debt (currency).
> “We’ve returned close to $1 trillion to the Treasury over the last 10 years. We did not keep that revenue in the Fed,” St. Louis Fed President James Bullard told reporters last month.