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Trump has added $4T to the debt in one year:

From https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/d...

3/19/2025 $36,214,467,819,348.16. --> 3/17/2026 $39,016,762,910,245.14

Yet strangely all Republicans are silent

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Republicans are only deficit hawks when it comes to spending money on things every day people benefit from. If they actually gave even a single shit about the deficit, they wouldn't hand billionaires massive tax breaks every single time they take power.

Reagan campaigned against Carter’s profligate spending.

And then proceeded to blow up the deficit even more himself. What they campaign on and what they actually do are different things.

And then blew up the deficit and started our massive accumulation of debt. A pattern gleefully followed by every single Republican administration since. Every single Democratic administration since has reduced the deficit the "spend and give tax breaks" Republicans have run up. But it's a losing battle clearly.

Carter reduced the deficit as well until the recession hit in 1979 and tax revenues decreased.

It really is like our body politic is still mentally stuck in 1980. It's crazy. Republicans still campaign on "balancing the budget" while demonstrably being responsible for all the major explosions of debt we have experienced in our lifetime.

The whole thing is absurd.

Republicans just play whatever meta will win them power until they get into office. It's a time-honored tradition at this point, so any time they tell you what they believe, what they say their beliefs are and what they actually do, will often be two separate things.

Shhh, you don't shout at the money hose, you just keeeeeeep drinking!!!!!!

Are those numbers backwards or am I seeing things?

Sorry, copy and paste error. I copied the public debt number for 2026 instead of the total debt number. Fixed.

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