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surfered

(14,964 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 02:02 PM 2 hrs ago

U S Debt Under Trump

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.

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Deuxcents

(28,128 posts)
1. This information should be repeated in the news everyday and every time the say they need more money,
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 02:10 PM
2 hrs ago

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

Beartracks

(14,730 posts)
7. Don't give him any ideas. But in his case it would still just be all plaster and gold appliques. n/t
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 03:23 PM
1 hr ago

Skittles

(173,552 posts)
3. notice how it is only an issue when Dems are in power
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 03:08 PM
1 hr ago

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

(371 posts)
10. Yup
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 04:15 PM
22 min ago

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

Fil1957

(958 posts)
4. They never were the fiscally conservative party, just as they were never the party of "small government", just as they
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 03:11 PM
1 hr ago

never were the party of law and order.

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

Beartracks

(14,730 posts)
6. I honestly don't know how the profligate Republicans claimed a mantle of fiscal responsibility...
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 03:22 PM
1 hr ago

... 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)
9. Drunken sailors are starting to look pretty responsible in comparison.
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 04:05 PM
32 min ago

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

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