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The National Debt, Do You Worry About It?
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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4962881" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>"<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/numbers-statistical-look-trump-s-four-years-office-n1254599" target="_blank">During his presidency</a>, self-proclaimed “<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-king-of-debt-224642" target="_blank">king of debt</a>” Donald Trump increased the federal budget deficit from $584 billion during the Obama era to a record-high $3.3 trillion. In January 2017, the national debt was $19.9 trillion; in December 2020, it was $27.7 trillion, a nearly $8 trillion increase. Far from fulfilling <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1418/eliminate-federal-debt-8-years/" target="_blank">his promise</a> of eliminating the national debt, he ballooned it -- and Republicans didn’t seem to mind all that much."</p><p></p><p>Media Matters</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4962881, member: 54375"] "[URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/numbers-statistical-look-trump-s-four-years-office-n1254599']During his presidency[/URL], self-proclaimed “[URL='https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-king-of-debt-224642']king of debt[/URL]” Donald Trump increased the federal budget deficit from $584 billion during the Obama era to a record-high $3.3 trillion. In January 2017, the national debt was $19.9 trillion; in December 2020, it was $27.7 trillion, a nearly $8 trillion increase. Far from fulfilling [URL='https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1418/eliminate-federal-debt-8-years/']his promise[/URL] of eliminating the national debt, he ballooned it -- and Republicans didn’t seem to mind all that much." Media Matters [/QUOTE]
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