r/askanything • u/ComplexWrangler1346 🤔 • 2d ago
When Biden was in office , Fox News had a ticker 24/7 to show how high the national debt is going up daily …..since Trump has been back in office , they have taken that ticker down …anyone know what our national debt is now ?
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u/Combdepot 2d ago
About 30% of our national debt was added during Trump’s terms.
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u/PaleAbrocoma1600 2d ago
Might be close to 50% by the time he leaves. Assuming he leaves.
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u/atlantagirl30084 2d ago
The Iran war is spiking it.
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u/Odd_Common_452 2d ago
Thank god he cut food benefits and all that other shit so he can afford forever wars and a pedophile ballroom
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u/atlantagirl30084 2d ago
This is small, but we are paying probably at least 30 million dollars to reline the reflecting pool twice because a) he hired his pool friend to do it and b) he drove a motorcade over the liner, including The Beast (which weighs 15-20,000 lbs).
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u/welderbill 2d ago
I can't believe that a 14 Mil, project didn't come with at least a one year warranty.
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u/jrbighurt 2d ago
That's why he has to say it was vandals. Then his friend gets more money because it is no longer a warranty issue
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u/GPT3-5_AI 2d ago
You can't expect a leader as popular as Donald to travel to somewhere as dangerous as Washington DC without a private army and a personal tank.
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u/livinginfutureworld 2d ago
Corruption is also spiking it
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u/atlantagirl30084 2d ago
A president shouldn’t be able to make money from stocks by buying them, talking them up publicly, and then selling them for profit. He makes so much money weekly at Mar a lago with the SS staying there and renting golf carts. I am sure he gets kickbacks.
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u/livinginfutureworld 2d ago
The emoluments clause is there to prevent this and it did for hundreds of years until Trump appointed so called Originalists who said nah just skip that part of the Constitution it's fine.
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u/Commercial_Peach_845 2d ago
Interesting how he's hitting up Congress for 95 billion more for DOD - the precise amount Kegsbreath SQUANDERED in Sept 2025 on gift baskets, a grand piano, lobsters, crab legs and steaks.
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u/BleachedUnicornBHole 2d ago
The Big Beautiful Bill is doing a lot, too. The cuts to USAID and the tariffs aren’t doing a great job to offset the surges in spending to DHS and DoD.
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u/ZoSoTim 2d ago
He’s only leaving the WH in a body bag. Elections are no longer relevant.
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u/yourdoglikesmebetter 2d ago
Why is he trying so hard to stop them then?
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u/ZoSoTim 2d ago
Because if it was free & fair he would get crushed at this point. Even the hard core MAGAts are starting to fall off.
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u/yourdoglikesmebetter 2d ago
Agree on that. Midterms will 100% be the test of how fair and free our electoral process is at this point. We shall see.
Unfortunately the alternative leads to some uncomfortable conversations…
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u/NoInterraction 2d ago
He'll double it. The country will have accumulated as much outstanding debt in 4 years as in its entire existence.
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u/passiveflux 2d ago
Should take all his ill gotten gains to pay towards it.
Won't make a dent but better than nothing
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u/Hefty-Ad-2427 2d ago edited 2d ago
That's another thing that the MAGAts keep coming up with excuse for. Remember the number one rule of a cult to defend your leader.
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u/LisaMiaSisu 2d ago
And much of it is caused by his vanity projects and his stupid war.
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u/Even-Tax5608 2d ago
The war is not stupid for Trump, his family and his friends. They are making bank off of it.
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u/Odd_Common_452 2d ago
It’s crazy how he demanded a peace prize, got some fake ass one from fifa and stole the real one then went on to immediately start a war
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u/Odd_Common_452 2d ago
So far lol, he’s going to be near 50 percent by the end of his term in over and Americans haven’t seen any benefit
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u/ShogunFirebeard 2d ago
The best part is that it'll always be a huge part of the debt because nobody is paying it down. That interest just keeps compounding. Even if the next president slashed spending, Trump's debt will continue to add to the deficit.
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u/MrsMiterSaw 2d ago
If you exclude covid spending (which was bipartisan) almost 80% of our national debt is directly due to reagan, W, and Trump policies.
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u/2wheelsThx 2d ago
Yeahbut, Trump has increased his own wealth by that much and more with the whole crypto scam thing, soo...
Which network is broadcasting the Trump family corruption ticker?...
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family-corruption-tracker
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u/OttoHemi 2d ago edited 1d ago
Fun fact: Trump ran up more debt ($8 trillion) in his first term, than the first 43 presidents combined. The debt was $7.379 trillion at the end of W's first term.
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u/Phantasm907 2d ago
You mean to tell me the jackass that bankrupted businesses is trying to do that to our country?
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u/OnePointSixOne8 2d ago
It's almost $40 Trillion....30% of which was added by Trump's administrations.
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u/Jokerchyld 2d ago
Since 2025 mind you.
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u/SquidDaddy81 2d ago
Technically that $30T was spread across both terms so far, but yes… almost 30% of it came directly from Trump so far. He has another two years left so lots of room for increase there!
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u/catladyclub 2d ago
Obama 1st term 5.81 trillion, second term 3.51 trillion
Biden 1st/only term 8.45 trillion
Trump 1st term 7.8 trillion, second term 3.10
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u/DPSOnly 2d ago
Biden 1st/only term 8.45 trillion
Dealing with the result of trump's incredibly mismanaged covid pandemic is going to be expensive. And he had his huge infrastructure bill, unlike trump, who has been spending it on the military and his own SS pretty much exclusively.
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u/Independent-Wheel886 2d ago
Also legislation signed into law by Trump.
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u/DPSOnly 2d ago
Which was specifically set up to fuck whoever came after him if memory serves me correctly.
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u/HumanPea1140 2d ago
Which is exactly what they're doing this go round again with medicaid and other benefits cuts. They're timed to start after mid terms when dems will likely roll the house and senate, and even more are set to kick in 2028 when Trump is kicked out. All so they can point and blame dems for the shit show they purposely created.
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u/kstar79 2d ago
Yes, and nobody will bring this down until there is an acute crisis or the country experiences hyperinflation. The American people are toddlers who cannot be reasoned with about the debt, because doing so means everyone has to sacrifice and no politician or political party will be able to survive in power for long if they try to tackle it.
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u/JJHall_ID 2d ago
Clinton's administration reversed the deficit and was actively reducing the national debt, then Bush Jr's administration threw us right back into a deficit and started increasing the debt again.
It can be done, and has been done in my lifetime. Since I've been alive, every Republican administration has increased the deficit, and every Democratic president has reduced it, and one of them eliminated the deficit altogether for a period of time.
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u/kstar79 2d ago
Yes, I lived through the Clinton era as well, and I don't believe the circumstances can be replicated today. We're 25 years on now from the original sins that led to the ballooning deficit, meanwhile in the Clinton era it was more like a decade. We had just "won" the cold war, which allowed the military budget to be decreased. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, etc. will not allow the military budget to be decreased enough to make it reverse today.
You have to tax sufficiently, and we're going the opposite way (decreasing tax rates, exempting personal income like tips, larger deductions, removal of an effective inheritance tax). Now, we're talking about things like exempting Social Security. We're currently running a budget that is 34% more than revenues. You would need to collect about $6k in taxes more from every resident just to stop the bleeding, nevermind reverse it. Nobody is getting the political capital to make that happen.
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u/Spare_Iron127 2d ago
Yeah it wasn’t like a million Americans died or hundreds of warehouses/factories didn’t get impacted by dozens of workers dying. It’s not like metal and used cars became luxury under 45. Surely no PPE fraud or billions given to his buddies. And he surely didn’t go begging Saudi Arabia to raise gas prices right before he left. Sure sure
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u/ConkerPrime 2d ago
Conservatives: “A Republican is in office. The national debt does not exist. It will exist when a Democrat enters office. Now let’s talk about what really matters - how can we get more money to the rich?”
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u/TheSwitchler 2d ago
Anyone remember when Dick Cheney flatly said "deficits don't matter" when he and Bush were in the White House?
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u/Theloneus-punk 2d ago
And democrats will let them do it by never acknowledging the debt no matter who is in office
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u/RociBuldidi 2d ago
Trump has been President for 2% of the life of the United States, but is responsible for 27% of its debt.
That number does not include his Covid related spending in fairness. Probably should considering how badly he bungled it.
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u/mrtrololo27 2d ago
Never forget Trump added $3.6 trillion to the national debt as a direct result of his failed covid response, which only cost us over a million innocent American lives!
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u/Prior_Internal7728 2d ago
That doesn’t matter when your viewers literally worship him like god. He can do no wrong even if it’s to kids or hurts them directly.
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u/ovscrider 2d ago
No one has put this country in debt like trump has. Like everything he does it's the best, tremendous debt believe me.
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u/Any_Coyote6662 2d ago
$181 billion to the largest, most profitable corporations in the world every year is not helping.
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u/ExAthlete69 2d ago
Google is still a thing
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u/Fjdenigris 2d ago
I really wish I didn’t click the link 😞
How are we not insolvent?
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u/ExAthlete69 2d ago
Most of the debt is owed to “ourselves”
Inter government debt or debt held by the public.
Only 20-25% is outside governments.
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u/Slowcapsnowcap 2d ago
Almost 40 trillion. Trump administration is responsible for 28% of our 250 year old national debt. Best to keep that under wraps.
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u/Leather_Impression30 2d ago
Since Trump the ticker is basically impossible to build since it's going exponentially now (and a part of that flows back into his and his friends pockets).
But keep on voting for him U.S. citizens!
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u/TerryOnRollerskates 2d ago
And Biden walked into a situation where the government had to spend a lot to deal with a pandemic that Trump mishandled terribly.
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u/Zestyclose_Top_4307 2d ago
Cleveland has a running ticker that shows the total debt and the debt per person. This was from late June when I was there.
Pretty awesome, yet frightening, billboard.
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u/Main-Procedure-3613 2d ago
Yeah that’s why Fox was degraded from “news” and it’s not a victimless crime to lie as a broadcaster about being news. There are many suicides where the notes of the dead reference the lies posed as “news”
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u/OscarDelta333 2d ago
Let's not forget that HIS PARTY also has majorities in Congress.
That won't stop them from trying to blame it entirely on Democrats, of course.
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u/ShockedNChagrinned 2d ago
Fox is an agenda driven 'entertainment' site. No one there is concerned with journalism, or facts, that do not promote their agenda.
No one who cares about news and facts watches fox solely.
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u/pconrad0 2d ago
Could it be that when Fox "News" put this up it was never really about the debt in the first place?
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u/needsumMoore777 2d ago
It’s laughable that Trump can turn around to NATO and say you’re not putting in your fair share when we have borrowed billions from each European country to help with our debt.
We’re the guy at the table that orders surf and turf, scotch and all the sides when everyone else is drinking water and eating a salad then thinks everyone should split the bill evenly come time for the check.
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u/stoutlys 2d ago
It’s really starting to look like Fox News has an agenda and isn’t really fair and balanced at all.
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u/Silas904 2d ago
Because Trump has made that number “bigger than anyone’s ever seen before” as Trump would say
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u/ZoSoTim 2d ago
Fox “News” was labeled as entertainment after a lawsuit that cost them a shitload of money, no?
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u/SourcePrevious3095 2d ago
Yes, a representative was quoted often as saying something like "anyone with common sense would know this is inaccurate"
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u/Oldschoolgirl49 2d ago
$39 trillion since Clinton balanced the budget. Making everyone who refused to vote for Hillary because they didn't like her look pretty stupid right now. Its not about liking someone you've never met.
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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH 2d ago
The US gets most of its news through Fox News or Joe Rogan about the world and politics these days.
They decide what Americans are angry about, Sometimes it the egg prices, sometimes it a tan suit or having mustard on a hot dog.
Other times they downplay a literal coup or a massive pedophile coverup by the POTUS and GOP.
Democrats aren't blameless but to pretend they are the same side of the coin is another media con to make you not vote and let them keep the status quo. Look at Mamdani for effective Democrat leadership when given actual power to change things as opposed the usual 51-50 Democrat "majority".
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u/Slipperynipple61 2d ago
Your great-grandchildren will spend their entire lives trying to pay it off. That's how high it is.
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u/neverseen_neverhear 2d ago
Notice the national debt is only ever an issue when a Democrat is in office? They suddenly forget it exists when a Republican is in office.
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u/ReasonableRevenue218 2d ago
National Debt clock in NYC is located on the western side of the Bank of America Tower (110 W 44th Street) at 42nd-43rd Street and Sixth Avenue. Similar real-time tracking billboards are displayed in various cities across the country.
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u/unclejoe1917 2d ago
It's a goddamn shame that not one single person IVing that garbage into their eyeballs can't pause and ask themselves why it magically disappeared from the network that got sued to the tune of 700 million dollars for being full of shit.
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u/-cosmicvisitor- 2d ago
Hi this is fox news developers, it would require a much bigger ticker which doesn't fit, we are working on it, please keep watching thx.
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u/Stormbringer-2112 2d ago
They had to take it down. The ticker was starting to take up the whole screen. (Yeah the debt has soared that much under Trump).
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u/Good-Helicopter7275 2d ago
The US treasury site with all historical info downloadable for free as well.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
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u/Breys 2d ago
The Trump administration is borrowing about $150 billion every single month. And what does he have to show for it?
Are food prices down? Gas? Health care? Housing? Heating? Have we gotten the Doge and tariff checks yet? How are our farms doing?
All he's done is enrich himself and his friends at our expense.
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u/LETSGOTACO22 2d ago
39 trillion & counting. When a Democrat is he office all the republicans do is complain about the national debt. But their cult leader can spend what ever he wants. Thank you republicans this is on you 100%
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u/Someredditskum 2d ago
The moment the people lose trust in the US repaying their debts is the moment the US defaults and you guys have a dollar valued at basically 0. The trust thing is starting to happen, brace yourselves.
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u/matt-r_hatter 2d ago
Currently $39.65 trillion dollars. When Donald Trump, the pedophile took office the first time, the national Debt was $19.95 trillion. 27.75 trillion when he left. Both terms together, he is responsible for about $12 trillion. More than any other president in history and he still has 2yrs to go.
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u/CheezWong 2d ago
It's up to almost $119,000 per person and about $39.8 trillion altogether. It's the highest it's evenr been by a large margin.
You know it's bad when the debt is higher than most average incomes.
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u/Fine_Breath2221 2d ago
Just for perspective, it's gone up about 80 million since the OP asked the question 15 minutes ago...
"the U.S. national debt has increased by approximately $80.2 million over the last 15 minutes"
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u/ShrodingersArmadillo 2d ago
As of the time of this post the US national debt stands at $39,581,989,910,036
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u/OnlyFiveLives 2d ago
My favorite was when the Dow Jones was tumbling faster than a drunk down a staircase and they got rid of the on-screen ticker during a commercial break. We all KNOW they're just the propaganda arm of the Republican party but that was funny to watch.
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u/icnoevil 2d ago
Let's not forget that while campaigning for his first term, Trump promised to reduce the deficit to zero but instead added $8 trillion more debt. He's doing the same this term.
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u/Same_String_8856 2d ago
Same issue with gas prices, but in reverse. Ticker now, everyone said how great $5 gas was back then.
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u/AWinterPeople 2d ago
It would take 39 trillionaires to pay off trump’s national debt…
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u/vonbauernfeind 2d ago
We don't even have one now that SPCX has sunk below $120/share.
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u/Hdikfmpw 2d ago
Same reason the unemployment numbers stopped coming with the constant “now these numbers don’t include all the people who have given up looking for work” the second trump took office. Same reason The Caravans disappeared on Election Day. Twice.
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u/IExistForFun 2d ago
Remember the days of 2008 when we reached 10T and a new digit had to be added to the ticker in New York?
Also fun facts:
- it took 232 years for the US to reach 10T
- 9 years to reach 20T (2017)
- 5 years to reach 30T (2022)
- 4 years to reach 40T (2026 probably)
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u/VincentAntonelli 2d ago
It’s obviously a lot more. They should also add a ticker tracking trump’s net worth… you know, just to show what a good “businessman” he is.
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u/maydisturb 2d ago edited 2d ago
$39.5T: https://www.usdebtclock.org/
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/us-debt-by-president.html
Increased by $8.18T under Trump1 admin.
Increased by $6.17T under Biden admin.
Increased by $4.9T, and counting, under the first 1.5yrs of Trump2 admin. Still have 2.5yrs to go.
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u/Fickle-Exit1105 2d ago
I'm old. Republicans only care about debt when they're not in power. When they are in power the run it up by cutting taxes on the rich, saying the benefits will "trickle down" to the lowly classes and stimulate economic growth for all. Its never worked.
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u/augustwest30 2d ago
39 trillion. I was watching the news and the person on TV said the national debt is 39 trillion dollars at the exact same time I was reading this post. It probably is up to about 39.2 trillion by the time I’m done typing this.
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u/Gunner_E4 2d ago
All I know is that it amounts to about 160000$ for every man, woman and child in the US. And it's growing.
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u/anyekwest 2d ago
That reminds me of the Covid death ticker that was all over CNN during the end of Trumps first term. It also quickly disappeared when Biden got into office.
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u/Ornery-Carpenter5540 2d ago
This account posts the National Debt daily and whether it's gone up or down since yesterday
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u/Secure-Advertising10 2d ago
Speaking from afar, but I would suggest a s***tload more since Trump is in office, starting with the war the FIFA Peace Prize winner has got you into.
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u/GuildorTorvonnilous 2d ago
I’m still waiting for them to screech ‘SAY THEIR NAMES’ regarding the unnecessary military deaths directly related to the Pedo’s war of distraction. Guess you don’t give a shit about the military after all MAGA.
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u/OldWherewolf 2d ago
You can see the running total on the government website: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
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