U S Debt Under Trump

[surfered]

The National Debt is $39.3 trillion. It's increased $3.1 trillion since Trump took office in January 2025 and it increased $7.8 trillion during his first term. He's responsible for $10.9 trillion or 27% of our current outstanding debt.

The cost of the Iran War and its reparations, his ballroom, ICE warehouses, and the Reflection Pond, Trump continues to spend our money like a drunken sailor all while personally profiting off his office. Republicans can no longer claim to be the fiscal conservative party.

[Deuxcents]

1. This information should be repeated in the news everyday and every time the say they need more money,

Our treasury is not a bottomless pit of money. Where’s the accountability? Audits? Congress?

[Goonch]

2. ;-{) PALACE WITH BALLROOM

[Beartracks]

7. Don't give him any ideas. But in his case it would still just be all plaster and gold appliques. n/t

[Skittles]

3. notice how it is only an issue when Dems are in power

THEY are expected to do something about it.

and the "party of fiscal responsibility" tag has long been as full of shit as their "pro-life" claims

[Dave Id]

10. Yup

always has been. Republicans create a problem the taxpayers are stuck paying when a Democratic admonition is in charge. SOS,DD!

[Skittles]

14. what really bothers me

is how much time Dems have to spend cleaning up repuke mess - then the voters take it out on them and elect repukes, who once again get to hit the ground running

[Fil1957]

4. They never were the fiscally conservative party, just as they were never the party of "small government", just as they

never were the party of law and order.

It was branding only. And too many people believed it, including some Democrats.

[mountain grammy]

8. Propaganda is a powerful weapon

And our media has been on board since Reagan

[Blue Full Moon]

5. Muskrat could not be a trillionaire without the debt increase.

[Beartracks]

6. I honestly don't know how the profligate Republicans claimed a mantle of fiscal responsibility...

... for as long as they have. Stats have always shown that the economy does worse when Republicans are in power. But under Trump 1 and now 2 -- yeah, they are really having a hard time defending all the crap they allow his administrations, and him personally, to get away with. And that's not even counting the creepy stuff from his past that they won't investigate. And yet so many Republican candidates around the country during this election year are tripping over themselves to tout their MAGA credentials and Trump endorsements like it's a good thing.

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[eppur_se_muova]

9. Drunken sailors are starting to look pretty responsible in comparison.

They spend their cash until their pockets are empty. Trmp spends the country's money and all on credit.

[calimary]

11. More like discredit.

[Scrivener7]

12. If we had a messaging apparatus ...

[MichMan]

13. Doesn't congress also bear equal responsibility for the debt?

A president can only sign the budget that congress has provided

[Pinback]

15. The solution is obvious.

Eliminate Medicaid and privatize Social Security!

[Jacson6]

16. No all of our elected representatives are responsible for the US debt. N/T