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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
(28,128 posts)Our treasury is not a bottomless pit of money. Wheres the accountability? Audits? Congress?
Goonch
(5,881 posts)
Beartracks
(14,730 posts)Skittles
(173,552 posts)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
always has been. Republicans create a problem the taxpayers are stuck paying when a Democratic admonition is in charge. SOS,DD!
Fil1957
(958 posts)never were the party of law and order.
It was branding only. And too many people believed it, including some Democrats.
mountain grammy
(29,337 posts)And our media has been on board since Reagan
Blue Full Moon
(3,759 posts)Beartracks
(14,730 posts)... 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
(42,861 posts)They spend their cash until their pockets are empty. Trmp spends the country's money and all on credit.