Month: January 2020

NATIONAL DEBT INCREASED BY $3 TRILLION DURING DONALD TRUMP’S THREE YEARS AS PRESIDENT

NATIONAL DEBT INCREASED BY $3 TRILLION DURING DONALD TRUMP’S THREE YEARS AS PRESIDENT BY JAMES CROWLEY ON 1/23/20 AT 9:40 AM EST – Newsweek SHARE U.S.DONALD TRUMPNATIONAL DEBTDEBTDEFICIT Nearly four years after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would eliminate the federal debt in eight years, the deficit has since risen by more than 16 percent under […]

The US is running a $1 trillion deficit, but politicians and investors don’t see a problem

CNBC – Market Insider PUBLISHED FRI, JAN 17 202011:14 AM EST UPDATED FRI, JAN 17 20202:00 PM EST Patti Domm@IN/PATTI-DOMM-9224884/@PATTIDOMM KEY POINTS The U.S. government is on track to run its first fiscal year deficit of more than $1 trillion since fiscal 2012. Economists and politicians were once very concerned about ballooning deficits, but the […]

Republicans Help Democrats Drain The U.S. Treasury

Forbes – 12/31/19  Adam Andrzejewski, Senior Contributor|POLICY  — Republicans Help Democrats Drain The U.S. Treasury From The Left —  Consensus and bipartisanship are rare in Washington, D.C. – except when it comes to spending taxpayer money. Since the end of the Obama era in 2016, the national debt has grown from $19.6 trillion to $23.2 trillion. This year, […]