#national-debt

#national-debt

Since late 1996, individual donations through the Treasury Department's 'Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt' program have totaled $67.3 million, which represents roughly 20 minutes of debt accumulation.

The bill, which makes the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent and provides a big funding boost for border security and national defense, was bitterly opposed by Thomas Massie (R-KY) in the House and Rand Paul (R-KY) in the Senate because of its dismal fiscal implications: an estimated $3.3 trillion increase in the national debt over the next decade.

Whatever savings may have been found, they were small potatoes when so many trillions of dollars were being added to the national debt.

I don't have any faith and confidence in the CBO, Nehls said, who was smoking a cigar and had both hands wrapped in bandages. They're scoring, they're wrong half the damn time.

Republican lawmakers are supporting a budget bill that threatens health care for vulnerable populations, risks rural hospitals, and escalates climate damage, while favoring the wealthy.

I think I'm the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic. I just find this incredibly petty.

MICHAEL SMERCONISH: I'm going to get to the economics. Go ahead. I gave you a chance for a great sound bite you got. And those soft power exercises make for great sound bites. But...