"There is no silver lining in this trajectory": Budget watchdog warns of financial, inflation, or currency crisis due to $39 trillion national debt

Clinton took a budget deficit and left office with a $200 Billion budget surplus. Bush campaigned against the surplus and during his administration, he immediately took us back into a deficit and left office with a record $1.2 Trillion deficit. Obama cut the deficit by more than half, leaving office with a $0.5 Trillion deficit. Trump increased the deficit every year, leaving office with a record shattering $3.5 Trillion deficit. Biden improved it, but not be enough, and now we are back into increasing Deficits.

Trumps signing his name on the dollar to remind you this is his fault.

GOP operates like there's someone that can bail out the government.

The seriousness that America’s free-willed adult society largely voted for / couldn’t be bothered to vote to prevent.

Trump has personally added more to the national debt than any president in history by far. gj MAGA. You voted for this.

But there is plenty of lobster if you want some!

republicans are the problem. They always over spend and then the DEMS have to clean up the mess

I’m sure more tax cuts for corporations and billionaires can fix it.

I'd be careful about the framing in these types of arguments or conversations if for no other reason than in the past it leads to dangerous, anti-working class, neoliberal arguments that result in gutting whatever pathetic welfare state we even had/ever had. Unless these conversations are centered, at a minimum, around massively cutting the "defense" budget, cutting the budget on our police state, and *significantly* raising taxes on the rich and corporations then all we're doing is waiting for more machete-wielding at things like social security, medicaid, medicare, etc.