Now we know why Trump gave us 25% of our total debt in just 4 years.
Trump and the Republicans passed massive spending bills from the very start of the Trump presidency, and they ramped up the deficit massively before covid hit.
Covid is not an excuse for the massive Trump debt, as Trump signed $4.7T pre-covid, and Trump gave us 25% of our total debt in jst 4 years.
Republicans own our out of control debt because they caused it, and let's not forget about what GW Bush did to the deficit.
The $4.7 trillion of debt signed into law by President Trump is on top of the current $17.2 trillion debt held by the public and the $9.2 trillion we were already expected to borrow over the next decade absent these proposals.
The December 2019 spending deal added $500 billion of debt by tacking onto ordinary appropriations a number of tax cuts. Most significantly, the bill permanently repealed three taxes meant to fund the Affordable Care Act, including the Cadillac tax that economists agree would have slowed health care cost growth and significantly reduced deficits over the long term. The legislation also revived a series of temporary special-interest zombie tax breaks, most of which had been expired for two years.
2020-01-08-Our US Budget Watch 2020 project analyzes, estimates, and explains the fiscal implications of proposals introduced during the presidential campaigns.
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