Trump added $2.25 trillion to the national debt in his first year back in charge, watchdog says

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Anonymous wrote:And WHY oh why aren’t the Democrats in congress shouting this from the rooftops and including it EVERY time they speak??? The total deficit as well as our ever growing debt - both the aggregate number AND the per person $ figure. We HAVE to hammer home all the time just how fiscally irresponsible the GOP is when they’re in power.

Because their biggest complaint is about spending cuts, not increases.

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Basically this doesn’t matter, and deficits haven’t mattered in a decade. We can’t pay it back, so we’ll just print it away. That is if don’t just flat out default first.

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Basically this doesn’t matter, and deficits haven’t mattered in a decade. We can’t pay it back, so we’ll just print it away. That is if don’t just flat out default first.

We still have to pay the interest on the debt, find people to buy our debt, and deal with the inflation that we are causing. None of this is free.

The fact that the most powerful country in the world has not had a balanced budget in the last quarter-century is absolutely shameful. Both major political parties are responsible for this mess, as are the voters who keep re-electing them. This is not specifically a Trump problem, but he is not exactly helping the situation, either.

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The Oval isn’t going to just gold leaf itself you know!

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Just recently, one hard core MAGA whose life has been upended by this admin policies said they are fine because there are some others they want to see having a hard time are indeed having it. There! you get the mentality of these losers, these were all backbenchers for life, and they will remain so. tRump is the ultimate backbenchers leader.

They’re not coping. This is all they have and all they want. MAGAs are nothing but lazy, hate-filled failures whose only
desire is to make other people miserable. The rest of us have had enough.

Yes, true, that's what I have now understood about a lot of them. The issue is a bunch of idiots who aren't totally like that also helped elect this felon to make it a backbenchers and losers rule on the majority. I am also angry at Joe and Jill for letting it happen, waiting till last minute then anointing Harris knowing she can't win. The dems are fools for trying to put two women candidates for Potus in a country that has never elected a women and were not likely to when it really mattered the most. Time for experiments would have come, against normal GOP candidates, but not the second time again, not against this person when the stakes were so high. Its also on Joe and his wife Jill who were drunk with power instead of letting it go without screwing up for the whole country.

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Anonymous wrote:Basically this doesn’t matter, and deficits haven’t mattered in a decade. We can’t pay it back, so we’ll just print it away. That is if don’t just flat out default first.

It could matter. The EU countries, China and Japan own a not insignificant amount of the US debt. Canada too. These are all countries Trump is behaving atrociously to and if they start dumping US Treasury bills mortgage rates will increase from the currently high 6 pct to an astronomical 16 pct.

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Anonymous wrote:If I ever hear another person say in my lifetime they are fiscally conservative so they are voting for the GOP (that’s the only reason!), I will scream!

Yup. If people actually look at the data they would realize that deficits explode during Republican presidencies because republicans cut taxes like there’s no tomorrow.

A lot of the trillions of our national debt are owned by Europe, Japan and China-all countries that the USA isn’t getting along with at the moment.

This house of cards is going to fall.

this is what I'm extremely worried about.

Is this why Trump caved on Greenland?

"framework of a plan"??? What B.S. He also had a "framework of a plan" for health care. Where is it?

But if this maniac keeps going with his threats to take over Canada, Mexico and Greenland, aren't these countries going to dump our debt and cause a worldwide economic crash?

What then?

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Anonymous wrote:The Oval isn’t going to just gold leaf itself you know!

I finally saw a photo of the Oval. It's beyond hideous, grotesquely tacky! Do you think that's real gold leaf or just gold paint?

In either case, it's plain ugly.

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Deficit is a disgrace. All politicians wear it like it or not. Those fools deal with $ amounts they can't even fathom and have, mostly, no experience. Disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:If I ever hear another person say in my lifetime they are fiscally conservative so they are voting for the GOP (that’s the only reason!), I will scream!

Yup. If people actually look at the data they would realize that deficits explode during Republican presidencies because republicans cut taxes like there’s no tomorrow.

A lot of the trillions of our national debt are owned by Europe, Japan and China-all countries that the USA isn’t getting along with at the moment.

This house of cards is going to fall.

this is what I'm extremely worried about.

Is this why Trump caved on Greenland?

"framework of a plan"??? What B.S. He also had a "framework of a plan" for health care. Where is it?

But if this maniac keeps going with his threats to take over Canada, Mexico and Greenland, aren't these countries going to dump our debt and cause a worldwide economic crash?

What then?

Then you will be poor, but the Trump family will be fine because the Chinese and Saudis gave them hundreds of millions of dollars to buy his Trump crypto coins.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I ever hear another person say in my lifetime they are fiscally conservative so they are voting for the GOP (that’s the only reason!), I will scream!

Yup. If people actually look at the data they would realize that deficits explode during Republican presidencies because republicans cut taxes like there’s no tomorrow.

A lot of the trillions of our national debt are owned by Europe, Japan and China-all countries that the USA isn’t getting along with at the moment.

This house of cards is going to fall.

this is what I'm extremely worried about.

Is this why Trump caved on Greenland?

"framework of a plan"??? What B.S. He also had a "framework of a plan" for health care. Where is it?

But if this maniac keeps going with his threats to take over Canada, Mexico and Greenland, aren't these countries going to dump our debt and cause a worldwide economic crash?

What then?

Then you will be poor, but the Trump family will be fine because the Chinese and Saudis gave them hundreds of millions of dollars to buy his Trump crypto coins.

+1. Rich people will break things and poor people will pay the price. As has happened since the dawn of time

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Some form of crisis is almost inevitable’: The $38 trillion national debt will soon be growing faster than the U.S. economy itself, watchdog warns

https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/how-big-national-debt-when-recession-financial-crisis-could-hit/

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Republican run House managed to pass all appropriation bills, for the first time in 30 years.
I think they are only four months past the deadline.

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Anonymous wrote:Some form of crisis is almost inevitable’: The $38 trillion national debt will soon be growing faster than the U.S. economy itself, watchdog warns

https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/how-big-national-debt-when-recession-financial-crisis-could-hit/

+1. Who could possibly predict that the US debt would ultimately become unsustainable

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some form of crisis is almost inevitable’: The $38 trillion national debt will soon be growing faster than the U.S. economy itself, watchdog warns

https://fortune.com/2026/01/22/how-big-national-debt-when-recession-financial-crisis-could-hit/

+1. Who could possibly predict that the US debt would ultimately become unsustainable

Republicans only care about the national debt when they're the ones who are not in power. They're fine to add trillions in debt for their priorities.